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Professor Dr Herbert Franke FBA

Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
1994
Year of birth
1914
Year of death
2011
Honours
FBA
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Current post

Member, Committee for Central Asian Studies, Bavarian Academy of Sciences

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Graham Furniss FBA

Oral and written literatures of Africa; orality, performance and genre in the popular cultures of West Africa with particular reference to Hausa-speaking regions of Nigeria and Niger

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Professor Manfred Woidich FBA

The descriptive dialectology, dialect geography of the Arabic language; historical linguistics of Arabic, in particular syntactic and semantic issues in Egyptian dialects. Teaching Arabic as a foreign language, colloquial first

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Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA

Indian philosophy focusing on Sanskrit and Pali, comparative philosophy of epistemology, metaphysics and phenomenology; classical Indian religions, especially Hindu theology in Sanskrit and Tamil, and comparative Hindu-Christian studies

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