Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic
Title used at Cambridge University
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Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic is a title used at Cambridge University for the holder of a professorship of Arabic; Sir Thomas Adams, 1st Baronet (1586–1668), Lord Mayor of London in 1645, gave to Cambridge University the money needed to create the first Professorship of Arabic.[1]
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]