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
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2023
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Current posts
University of Oxford Professor of Islamic Studies
Pembroke College, Oxford Fellow
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Andrew Louth FBA
The history and theology of the Christian Church in Late Antiquity and in the Byzantine Empire; modern Eastern Orthodox theology
Professor David Shulman FBA
Pre-modern South Asian history and cultural history; languages and literatures of southern India (Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada); Sanskrit language and literature; Carnatic music; history of religion in South India; Tamil Islam; South Asian poetics; Sri Lankan Tamil
Professor Sophie Gilliat-Ray FBA
Islam and Muslim communities in Britain; religious leadership, chaplaincy in public institutions, ethnographic research methodology.
