Professor Garth Fowden FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Subjects
- Classics, Religion
Summary
Garth Fowden was the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths in the University of Cambridge from 2013 to 2020. After his DPhil in Modern History from the University of Oxford, Fowden held research fellowships at Cambridge and taught briefly at Groningen, and subsequently on several occasions as a visiting professor at Princeton. But the greater part of his career (1985-2013) was spent working on late antique and early Islamic history at the National Research Foundation in Athens. He is now composing a wide-ranging synthesis of his work in these traditionally separate areas of scholarly activity, within the framework of a new historical periodisation, the First Millennium from Augustus to Avicenna.
Current post
Institute of Historical Research, National Research Foundation, Athens Senior Research Director
2013 -
Past appointments
University of Cambridge Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths
2013 - 2020
Publications
Abraham or Aristotle? First Millennium Empires and Exegetical Traditions
Garth Fowden - Published in 2015 by Cambridge University Press
Before and After Muhammad: The First Millennium Refocused
Garth Fowden - Published in 2013 by Princeton University Press
Qusayr 'Amra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria
Garth Fowden - Published in 2004 by University of California Press
Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity
Garth Fowden - Published in 1994 by Princeton University Press
The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind
Garth Fowden - Published in 1993 by Princeton University Press
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