INCARNATION (73 page)

Daniel Easterman (Denis MacEoin) was born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1949.

He studied English Literature at Trinity College, Dublin, and Persian and Arabic at the University of Edinburgh. Between 1975 and 1979 he carried out research for his doctoral thesis on Shi’ite Islam at King’s College, Cambridge. He has lived in most parts of the British Isles, as well as in Iran and Morocco.
For several years he was lecturer in Islamic Studies at Newcastle University. Now writing full-time, he holds an honorary post at Durham University.
Apart from his literary and academic interests he is involved in the promotion of alternative medicine. 
He lives in the north of England with his wife, a homeopath, and their cat, a tabby.