Professor James Montgomery FBA
Classical Arabic literature, literary translation, literary history, history of ideas.
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2024
- Honours
- FBA
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Current post
University of Cambridge Sir Thomas Adams’s Professor of Arabic
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Şevket Pamuk FBA
Economic history of the Ottoman Empire, Middle East, Turkey and Europe during early modern and modern eras; money, wages, prices, trade, state finances, economic growth, institutions and institutional change
Professor Harri Englund FBA
African-language political and moral thought; the historical-linguistic translation of freedom, equality and human rights; the racial and humanitarian politics of Christian missions in 19th-century Africa
