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
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Arabic Language and Linguistics, University of Amsterdam
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 Derek Peterson FBA
Intellectual and cultural history of eastern Africa; the composition of books; the politics of archives; the infrastructure of religious experience; the social practice of non-conformity; Idi Amin
Professor Gavin Flood FBA
Hindu religious literature in the Middle Ages (post-Gupta period); comparative religion, with particular reference to Hinduism and Christianity; philosophical phenomenology and hermeneutics
