Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic
Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic is a title used at
The professorship was partly created to propagate the Christian faith "to them who now sit in darkness".[2]
Sir Thomas Adams's Professors
- Abraham Wheelocke (1632)
- Edmund Castell (1666)
- John Luke (1685)
- Charles Wright (1702–1710)[3]
- Simon Ockley (1711)
- Leonard Chappelow (1720)
- Samuel Hallifax (1768)
- William Craven(1770)
- Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1795)
- John Palmer (1804)[4]
- Samuel Lee (1819)[5]
- Thomas Jarrett (1831)
- Henry Griffin Williams (1854)
- William Wright (1870)
- William Robertson Smith (1889)
- Charles Pierre Henri Rieu (1894)
- Edward Granville Browne (1902)[6]
- Reynold Alleyne Nicholson(1926)
- Charles Ambrose Storey (1933)
- Arthur John Arberry (1947–1969)
- Robert Bertram Serjeant (1970–1982)
- Malcolm Cameron Lyons (1985)
- Tarif Khalidi (1996–2002)
- James Montgomery (2012– )[7][8]
See also
Notes
- ^ Chalmers, Alexander. The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. new ed. rev. and enl. London: Nichols [et al.], 1812-1817. 32 vols.
- ISBN 0-521-30139-4.)
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link - ^ "Wright, Charles (WRT652C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Palmer, John (PLMR787J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/16309. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ "University intelligence - Cambridge". The Times. No. 36755. London. 30 April 1902. p. 11.
- ^ "Elections". Cambridge University Reporter (6266). 16 May 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- ^ "Professor James Montgomery". University of Cambridge, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Retrieved June 17, 2025.