Professor Nicolai Sinai FBA

Qur’anic studies (including both the historical and literary study of the Qur’an itself and its history of interpretation); late antique Arabia and the life of Muhammad; pre-modern Islamic intellectual history
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Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2023

Current posts

University of Oxford Professor of Islamic Studies

Pembroke College, Oxford Fellow

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Kathryn Tanner FBA

Christian theology, informed by the history of Christian thought and approached through an interdisciplinary lens, with an emphasis on the connections between Christian thought and economic, political, and social issues

Kathryn Tanner FBA

Professor Robert P Gordon FBA

The Hebrew Bible / Old Testament: the ancient near eastern context; the Hebrew text and the ancient versions; exegesis and theology; the Hebrew Bible / Old Testament in Jewish and Christian tradition.

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Professor Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad FBA

Indian philosophy focusing on Sanskrit and Pali, comparative philosophy of epistemology, metaphysics and phenomenology; classical Indian religions, especially Hindu theology in Sanskrit and Tamil, and comparative Hindu-Christian studies

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