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Dr Ilya Gershevitch FBA

History - History of a specific country
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1967
Year of birth
1914
Year of death
2001
Honours
FBA
Sections
Africa, Asia and the Middle East

Current post

Reader Emeritus in Iranian Studies, University of Cambridge

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Charles Tripp FBA

Politics in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq & Egypt; Islamic political thought; the relationship between art & power in the Middle East.

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Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams FBA

Philology Central and Inner Asia

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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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