Rt Rev Archimandrite Robert Taft FBA
Eastern Christianity, specifically its theology and worship traditions
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2001
- Year of birth
- 1932
- Year of death
- 2018
- Subjects
- Religion
- Sections
- Theology and Religious Studies
Current post
Professor Emeritus of Oriental Liturgy, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome
Other Fellows of the British Academy
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 William Courtenay FBA
Medieval intellectual history; medieval philosophy & theology; history of medieval universities, notably Oxford & Paris; paleography & codicology
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
