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 Michael Cook FBA
The history of the Islamic world; the formation & development of traditional Islamic thought, & its implications in the modern world; Islamic thought, & its implications in the modern world; Islamic history in comparative perspective.
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
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
