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 Jean-Pierre Mahé FBA
Languages & civilisations of the Christian Near East (Armenian, Caucasian, Albanian, Coptic, Georgian); epigraphy. palaeography; Armenian history;
Professor Andrew Gerstle FBA
The cultural and social history of 17th-19th century Japan, with particular reference to Bunraku and Kabuki theatres, popular literature, sexuality and the visual arts
