Professor Nicolai Sinai FBA

Qur’anic studies (including both the historical and literary study of the Qur’an itself and its history of interpretation); late antique Arabia and the life of Muhammad; pre-modern Islamic intellectual history
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current posts

University of Oxford Professor of Islamic Studies

Pembroke College, Oxford Fellow

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor John Barclay FBA

Early Judaism and the formation of early Christian thought and practice in the first century; the theology of Paul and the history of its reception

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Professor Judith Lieu FBA

The New Testament, in particular the Johannine literature; early Christianity, its literature and thought, in the Graeco-Roman and Jewish first- and second-century contexts

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Professor Dr Thomas Kaufmann FBA

History of Christianity in early modern period; theological and cultural history of the Reformation; history of the relations between Christian denominations, Judaism and Islam; history of church history

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