Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic is a title used at

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for the holder of a professorship of Arabic;

Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (1586 – 24 February 1667/1668) was the Lord Mayor of the City of London and a Member of Parliament for the City of London from 1654 to 1655 and 1656–1658. Adams was born in 1586, at Wem, Shropshire, educated at ...

(1586–1668),

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in 1645, gave to Cambridge University the money needed to create the first Professorship of

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. The professorship was partly created to propagate the

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faith "to them who now sit in darkness".

Sir Thomas Adams's Professors

Abraham Wheelocke Abraham Wheelock (1593 in Whitchurch, Shropshire – 25 September 1653) was an English linguist. He was the first Cambridge professor of Arabic. Cambridge He graduated MA from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1618, and became Fellow of Clare Colleg ...

(1632) * Edmund Castell (1666) *

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(1685) * Charles Wright (1702–1710) *

Simon Ockley Simon Ockley (16789 August 1720) was a British Orientalist. Biography Ockley was born at Exeter. He was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 1697, MA. in 1701, and B.D. in 1710. He became fellow of Jesus College and vica ...

(1711) *

Leonard Chappelow Leonard Chappelow (1683–1768) was an English clergyman and orientalist. He was Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic at the University of Cambridge, from 1720, for life, and also Lord Almoner's Professorship of Arabic. Life He was born at Bever ...

(1720) *

Samuel Hallifax Samuel Hallifax or Halifax (1733–1790) was an English churchman and academic, holder of several chairs at Cambridge and was successively Bishop of Gloucester (1781–1789) and Bishop of St Asaph (1789–1790). Life He was born at Mansfield o ...

(1768) * William Craven (1770) * Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1795) *

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(1804) * Samuel Lee (1819) *

Thomas Jarrett Thomas Jarrett, DD, (1805–1882) was an English churchman and orientalist. Life He was educated at St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. in 1827 as thirty-fourth wrangler, and seventh in the first class of the classical tr ...

(1831) *

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(1854) * William Wright (1870) * William Robertson Smith (1889) *

Charles Pierre Henri Rieu Charles Pierre Henri Rieu (June 8, 1820 – March 19, 1902) was a Swiss orientalist, for many years Professor of Arabic in London and Cambridge. Biography Rieu was born in Geneva, and studied at Bonn University, where he studied Arabic under ...

(1894) * Edward Granville Browne (1902) *

Reynold Alleyne Nicholson Reynold Alleyne Nicholson, FBA (18 August 1868 – 27 August 1945), or R. A. Nicholson, was an eminent English orientalist, scholar of both Islamic literature and Islamic mysticism and widely regarded as one of the greatest Rumi (Mevlana ...

(1926) *

Charles Ambrose Storey Charles Ambrose Storey (1888 - 1968) was a British orientalist. His best known contribution was his ''Persian Literature: A Bio-bibliographical Survey'', published in five volumes between 1927 and 2004. It was envisioned by Storey as a counterpar ...

(1933) *

Arthur John Arberry Arthur John Arberry (12 May 1905, in Portsmouth – 2 October 1969, in Cambridge) FBA was a British scholar of Arabic literature, Persian studies, and Islamic studies. He was educated at Portsmouth Grammar School and Pembroke College, Cambridge ...

(1947–1969) *

Robert Bertram Serjeant Robert Bertram Serjeant, FBA (23 March 1915 – 29 April 1993) was a British scholar, traveller, and one of the leading Arabists of his generation. Background and career He was born and raised in Edinburgh and studied at the University of E ...

(1970–1982) *

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(1985) *

Tarif Khalidi Tarif Khalidi ( ar, طريف الخالدي; born 24 January 1938) is a Palestinian historian who now holds the Shaykh Zayid Chair in Islamic and Arabic Studies at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. Family Khalidi is the son of Ahma ...

(1996–2002) * James Montgomery (2012– )

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