Professor Christopher Shackle FBA

Oriental and African Studies
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1990

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London

Past appointments

Soas, University Of London Pro-Director for Academic Affairs

1997 - 2003

University of London Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia

1985 - 2008

Soas, University Of London Emeritus Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia, University of London

1985 -

Birkbeck College University of London Reader in Modern Languages of South Asia

1979 - 1985

Soas, University Of London Lecturer in Urdu and Panjabi

1969 - 1979

Publications

The Siriaki language of central Pakistan 1976

A Guru Nanak glossary 1981

Qasida poetry in Islamic Asia and Africa (2 vols), 1996

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Professor Peter Jackson FBA

The Mongol Empire & its relations with the Catholic West; the Crusades & the Latin East; & the eastern Islamic world in the Middle Ages.

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Professor Elizabeth Perry FBA

The history and politics of modern China, with special attention to traditions of rebellion and revolution and their influence on contemporary patterns of protest and governance

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Mr Michael C A Macdonald FBA

Languages, scripts, inscriptions, and rock art in ancient Arabia and its environs; ancient literacy and its uses; the history of ancient Arabian cultures and of the ancient Near Eastern nomads

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