Professor Paulo de Moraes Farias FBA
West African history: oral traditions, chronicles, and medieval Arabic inscriptions; the interaction of Islamic and other cultural heritages in the region
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2017
- Year of death
- 2026
- Sections
- Africa, Asia and the Middle East
Last post
Honorary Professor, Department of African Studies and Anthropology, University of Birmingham
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor John Healey FBA
Aramaic inscriptions of the Roman-period Near East (especially Nabataen & Syriac); associated historical, religious & legal studies; early development of the Arabic script; Ugaritic, Hebrew & Syriac philology & literature
