King Fahd Professor of Islamic Studies Professor Muhammad A S Abdel Haleem, OBE Qur’an, Hadith, Tafsir; Islam in society; classical and modern Arabic literature
Professor Wen-chin Ouyang Classical and modern Arabic literature and culture, with emphasis on narrative and storytelling, comparative narratology and critical theory, and gendered thinking and discourse.
Senior Lecturer in Turkish Dr Yorgos Dedes Early Anatolian Turkish; Ottoman language and literature; Ottoman history; Turkish-Greek relations; modern Turkish culture
Senior Lecturer in Arabic Linguistics Dr Christopher Lucas Historical linguistics, Arabic linguistics, Maltese linguistics, Arabic dialectology, language contact, linguistic variation, contact-induced language change, Language Analysis for the Determination of Origin, Dynamic Syntax, Relevance Theory, Arabic language, Afro-Asiatic languages, English
Dr Seyed Ali Alavi International Politics, Middle East Politics, Central European and Caucasian Politics, Agricultural Generics and Agro-Policy, Languages
Lecturer in Comparative Literature Dr Keya Anjaria The Novel; 20th Century Turkish Literature; Turkish Cinema; World Literature; Comparative Literature; 20th Century Literary Criticism; Modernity and Modernization in late 19th and 20th Century Turkey.
Professor Stefan Sperl Arabic Literature Classical and Modern; Comparative Literature; Qur’an and Hadith Studies; Islamic Art; Sufism and Neoplatonism; Refugee and Exile Studies
Emeritus Professor of Arabic Dialect Studies (Retired) Professor Bruce Ingham General descriptive linguistics, Arabic, Persian, North American Indian languages, dialects and oral literature of the Arabian Peninsula - in particular the dialects of the Arabian bedouin, covering the dialects of the Al Dhafir, Mutair, Al Murrah and Rwalah tribes; Lakota (Siouan), Cree (Algonquian)
Emeritus Professor of Iranian and Central Asian Studies Professor Nicholas Sims-Williams Iranian and Central Asian philology; Christian and Manichaean texts from Central Asia.
