Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic

Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic

The Sir Thomas Adams's Professorship of Arabic is the senior professorship in Arabic at the University of Cambridge.

One of the oldest professorships in Cambridge, the chair was founded by Sir Thomas Adams in 1643, with the stipend paid by the Drapers' Company.

Sir Thomas Adams Professors

* Abraham Wheelock (1632)
* Edmund Castell (1666)
* John Luke (1685)
* Charles Wright (1702)
* Simon Ockley (1711)
* Leonard Chappelow (1720)
* Samuel Hallifax (1768)
* William Craven (1770)
* Joseph Dacre Carlyle (1795)
* John Palmer (1804)
* Thomas Jarrett (1831)
* Henry Griffin Williams (1854)
* William Wright (1870)
* William Robertson Smith (1889)
* Charles Pierre Henri Rieu (1894)
* Edward Granville Browne (1902)
* Samuel Lee (1918)
* Reynold Alleyne Nicholson (1926)
* Charles Ambrose Storey (1933)
* Arthur John Arberry (1947)
* Robert Bertram Serjeant (1970-1982)
* Malcolm Cameron Lyons (1985)
* Tarif Ahmad Samih Khalidi (1996)


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