Professor Alain George FBA
History of Islamic Art and Architecture; Early Qur'ans; Umayyad and Abbasid Art and Architecture; History of Arabic Calligraphy; Arabic Illustrated Manuscripts; the Indian Ocean Trade.
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2024
- Honours
- FBA
- Subjects
- Art history
- Sections
- History of Art and Music
Current post
I.M. Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Director, Khalili Research Centre, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA
History, theory, and analysis of 13th- and 14th-century music; music and French poetry in the same period; themes of love, violence, gender, and sexuality
Professor Robert Hillenbrand FBA
Islamic art, with particular reference to Iran and Syria; medieval architecture, book painting and iconography
Professor Kobena Mercer FBA
Modern and contemporary art history of the Black Atlantic, including photography and film; cultural studies of race, ethnicity and diaspora; black/queer intersections; psychoanalysis and postcolonial identities
