Professor Sabine Schmidtke FBA

Islamic Studies, Islamic and Jewish Intellectual History, Judeo-Arabic, Geniza, Shiism (Twelver Shiism and Zaydism), Yemen, History of Libraries, Islamic Theology (kalam) and Philosophy, Islamic manuscripts, Bible in Arabic, Muslim reception of the Bible, History of Oriental Studies, Correspondences as a Historial Source
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Fellow type
International Fellow
Year elected
2023
Subjects
Humanities, Religion

Current post

Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Professor of Islamic Intellectual History

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Christopher Insole FBA

Christopher Insole's research interests are reinterpreting Kant’s relationship with, and challenge to, philosophical theology; rethinking the relationship between natural theology and the limits of reason, as these limits manifest in philosophy, theology, and psychotherapy.

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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

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Professor William Courtenay FBA

Medieval intellectual history; medieval philosophy & theology; history of medieval universities, notably Oxford & Paris; paleography & codicology

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