Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

The faculty is divided into three sub-faculties based on subject area, including: • Sub-Faculty of Middle Eastern Studies, which covers • Department of the Islamic World • Department of Modern Middle Eastern Studies • Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies (also based at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies) • Department of Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (also based at the Griffith Institute) • Sub-Faculty of South and Inner Asian Studies, which covers • Hindi and Urdu politics, language, and culture • Sanskrit (classical and Vedic) • Tibetan and Himalayan Cultural Studies • Sub-Faculty of East Asian Studies (also based at the Eastern Art Department of the Ashmolean Museum), which covers • Chinese (based at the University of Oxford China Centre, Canterbury Road) • Japanese (also based at the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Winchester Road) • Korean, politics, and culture ==Notable people==

Statutory professorships (): • Regius Professor of Hebrew – vacant • Laudian Professor of Arabic – Julia Bray • Professor of Egyptology – Richard B. Parkinson • Boden Professor of Sanskrit – James Mallinson • Calouste Gulbenkian Professor of Armenian Studies – Theo Maarten van Lint • Spalding Professor of Eastern Religion and Ethics – Diwakar Acharya • I.M. Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture – Alain Fouad George • Stanley Ho Professor of Chinese History – Henrietta Harrison • Soudavar Professor of Persian Studies – Edmund Herzig • Yehan Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies – Stefano Zacchetti • Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World – Marilyn Booth • HH Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies – vacant Other notable current academics: • Martin Goodman • Christopher Melchert • Judith Olszowy-Schlanger • Eugene Rogan ==References==