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    The position of Laudian Professor of Arabic, now known as the Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professor, at the University of Oxford was established...
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  • for the teaching of Arabic, was sometimes used for teaching Hebrew, and sometimes held by the same person as the Laudian Professor. The chair was discontinued...
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    briefly active as a priest in the Church of England. He was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1889 to 1937. His father, Ezekiel...
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  • 31 October 1774) was an English academic, who was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1738 until his death. Hunt was born in...
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  • Julia Bray (category Laudian Professors of Arabic)
    scholar of Oriental studies who specialises in Medieval to Early Modern Arabic literature. From 2012 to 2023, she was the Laudian Professor of Arabic at the...
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    Radcliffe Camera (category Libraries of the University of Oxford)
    concerned with the Middle East – the first on the advice of Thomas Hunt, Laudian Professor of Arabic. The texts appear to have suffered from poor care after...
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  • Tahera Qutbuddin (category Laudian Professors of Arabic)
    Abdulaziz Saud AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford. A Guggenheim Fellow (2020) and a winner of the Sheikh Zayed Book Award...
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  • Geert Jan van Gelder (category Laudian Professors of Arabic)
    (born 10 June 1947) is a Dutch academic who was the Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1998 to 2012. After completing his secondary...
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  • church of England, "it had an impact on India with the arrival of the British". Citing the Great Commission, Joseph White, a Laudian Professor of Arabic at...
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  • was Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford from 1703 until his death. Wallis matriculated at the University of Oxford as a member of Wadham...
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  • Wallis (Arabic scholar) (c. 1674–1738), Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford John Wallis (publisher) (died 1818), publisher of board...
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    Edward Pococke (category Laudian Professors of Arabic)
    the Arabic language, and collected many valuable manuscripts. He also studied and translated works from the Islamic tradition, including that of al-Ghazali...
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  • Robert Gandell (category Laudian Professors of Arabic)
    1887) was a British academic and biblical scholar who was a Laudian Professor of Arabic from 1861 until his death. Gandell, from London, was educated...
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  • H. A. R. Gibb (category Laudian Professors of Arabic)
    Arabist and Reader in Arabic, James Heyworth-Dunne. In 1937 Gibb succeeded David Samuel Margoliouth as Laudian Professor of Arabic with a Fellowship at...
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    Laudian Professor of Arabic Action Research Professor of Clinical Neurology Agnelli-Serena Professor of Italian Studies Alastair Buchan Professor of International...
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  • clergyman and academic who was Laudian Professor of Arabic from 1823 until 1840. Knatchbull, who was one of the sons of Sir Edward Knatchbull, 8th Baronet...
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  • Alfred Felix Landon Beeston (category Laudian Professors of Arabic)
    became Sub-Librarian and Keeper of Oriental Books and Manuscripts. In 1957 he was elected Laudian Professor of Arabic at Oxford, which chair he held until...
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  • however, proposed that a fellowship should be devoted to the Laudian Professor of Arabic. The college objected, on the basis that a Celtic Professorship...
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  • Stephen Reay (category Laudian Professors of Arabic)
    Scottish academic and clergyman, who was Laudian Professor of Arabic from 1840 until his death. Reay was the only child of a Scottish clergyman, John Reay, and...
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    missionary (b. 1703) October 31 Thomas Hunt, English academic, Oxford Laudian Professor of Arabic (b. 1696) Edward Noel, 1st Viscount Wentworth, British peer (b...
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    Thomas Hyde (category Laudian Professors of Arabic)
    the Laudian professorship of Arabic; and in 1697, on the deprivation of Roger Altham, he succeeded to the Regius chair of Hebrew and a canonry of Christ...
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    Wilferd Madelung (category Laudian Professors of Arabic)
    until 1978 at the University of Chicago. He was the Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John’s College there from...
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    Oxford University Statutes Volume 1 – containing the Caroline Code or Laudian Statutes promulgated A.D. 1630. trans. Ward, G. R. M. London: William Pickering...
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    theologian, Laudian Professor of Arabic and then Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford. He was born in Gloucestershire, the son of Thomas...
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  • Thomas Winstanley (category Laudian Professors of Arabic)
    the University of Oxford, who held the positions of Camden Professor of Ancient History, Laudian Professor of Arabic, and principal of St Alban Hall....
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    1785) September 18 – Thomas Hunt, English academic, Oxford Laudian Professor of Arabic (d. 1774) September 20 – Charles Gray, British politician (d...
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    (1675-1738), who was rector of Everleigh from 1716, was at the same time Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford. In the 1760s the living...
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  • Syriacus of R. Payne Smith in 1927, adding 345 pages of new entries. On 25 April 1896, she married David Samuel Margoliouth, Laudian Professor of Arabic at...
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  • In Our Time is a radio discussion programme exploring a wide variety of historical, scientific, cultural, religious and philosophical topics, broadcast...
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  • 1785) September 18 – Thomas Hunt, English academic, Oxford Laudian Professor of Arabic (d. 1774) September 20 – Charles Gray, British politician (d...
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