List of School of Oriental and African Studies people

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This is a list of School of Oriental and African Studies people, including alumni, former and current members of staff. The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London has many notable alumni in positions of authority around the world.

Royalty[]

Government and politics[]

Aung San Suu Kyi
  • Dan Mokonyane, South African activist[5]
  • Maajid Nawaz, co-founder and Executive Director of Quilliam, the world's first counter-extremism think tank
  • Samia Nkrumah, Ghanaian Member of Parliament
  • Sylvester Umaru Onu, Judge of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
  • Aaron Mike Oquaye, Minister of Communication in Ghana
  • Amal Pepple, Minister of Housing, Lands and Urban Development in Nigeria and former Head of the Nigerian Civil Service
  • Enoch Powell, British politician
    British parliamentarian Enoch Powell
  • Quinton Quayle, UK Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand and to Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • Atiur Rahman, Governor of Central Bank, Bangladesh
  • Sir Shridath Ramphal, Secretary-General for the Commonwealth[1]
  • Walter Rodney, historian and Guyanese political activist[1]
  • Gita Sahgal, writer and journalist, film director, and human rights activist
  • Alan Senitt, political activist for homosexual rights
  • Ivor Stanbrook, Member of the British Parliament and diplomat[1]
  • Hassan Taqizadeh, Member of Iranian Parliament and diplomat
  • Sir John Vinelott, lawyer and judge
  • Sir David Warren, former UK Ambassador to Japan
  • Sir Michael Weir, former UK ambassador to Egypt
  • Catherine West, Member of British Parliament
  • Sir Ray Whitney, Member of British Parliament[6]
  • Michael C Williams, UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon
  • David Wilson, Baron Wilson of Tillyorn, 27th Governor of Hong Kong[1]
  • Tim Yeo, UK Conservative Party politician[1]
  • Sir Edward Youde, 26th Governor of Hong Kong

Media/writers[]

The Chinese-born British writer Jung Chang, who is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans.


Academics[]

Bernard Lewis, renowned orientalist
  • Hakim Adi, historian and scholar specializing in African affairs
  • Mario Aguilar, Oromo scholar and theologian
  • Akbar Ahmed, author, diplomat and scholar of contemporary Islam
  • Ali Ansari, historian, Iran expert, professor
  • Amira Bennison, historian of the Middle East
  • Charles Otto Blagden, linguist
  • Issa J. Boullata, Arabic literature and Qur'anic studies,
  • Urvashi Butalia, historian, feminist, founder and director of Kali for Women
  • Hazel Carter (linguist), Linguist, known for her work on the Bantu languages, Shona, Kongo and Tonga.
  • Gus Casely-Hayford, curator, cultural historian[8]
  • K.N. Chaudhuri, historian, author, creative writer, and graphic artist
  • George N. Clements, linguist
  • Craig Clunas, art historian, Professor of History of Art at the University of Oxford
  • Hugh E. Conway, American economist and college professor
  • Simon Digby, oriental scholar
  • Frank Dikötter, Dutch historian
  • Ronald P. Dore, sociologist
  • Diana L. Eck, comparative religion and Indian Studies
  • Antony Flew, philosopher
  • David SG Goodman, scholar of contemporary China
  • Wang Gungwu, Chinese historian
  • Sir Martin Harris, educationalist
  • Fred Halliday, historian, international relations
  • Ian Hancock, linguist and Romani scholar
  • Betty Heimann, Indologist
  • Anthony Hyman, academic, writer and Islamicist
  • Robert Graham Irwin, historian and writer on Arabic literature
  • Marsden Jones, Islamic scholar
  • Samten Karmay, Tibetologist, expert on Bon religion, CNRS
  • Kusuma Karunaratne, Sinhalese language and literature
  • Nick Knight, Professor of Asian Studies
  • Gregory B. Lee, Professor of Chinese and Transcultural Studies at University of Lyon
  • Trevor LeGassick, Professor of Arabic Literature at University of Michigan
  • Bernard Lewis, Islamic scholar and Emeritus Professor at Princeton University, USA
  • Victor Lieberman, Southeast Asian historian
  • Martin Lings, English Muslim scholar and author[9]
  • Michael Loewe, sinologist
  • David Neil MacKenzie, scholar of Iranian languages
  • Nur Masalha, author, historian, editor and Middle East scholar
  • Duncan McCargo, Southeast Asian Politics
  • Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, philosopher
  • Ian Nish, Japanese studies
  • Farish Noor, academic, historian specialised in Southeast Asian region
  • Ben Pimlott, historian, biographer
  • Susan Oosthuizen, Emeritus Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Cambridge
  • Martin Orwin, author, scholar, and poet
  • James R. Russell, Armenian Studies
  • Kamal Salibi, Lebanese historian and professor
  • Tsering Shakya historian and Tibetologist
  • Ram Sharan Sharmam historian of Ancient India
  • Alireza Shapour Shahbazi, prominent Persian archaeologist, Iranologist, world expert on Achaemenid archaeology
  • Ninian Smart, religious studies
  • Patrick Sookhdeo, theologian and Anglican canon
  • Isolde Standish, Film theorist specialised in East Asia
  • Romila Thapar, Indian historian
  • Farouk Topan, director of the Swahili Centre at the Aga Khan University
  • Thomas Trautmann, historian
  • Konrad Tuchscherer, historian
  • Than Tun, historian of Burma
  • Andrew Turton, anthropologist, specialised on Thailand and Tai peoples
  • Giles Ji Ungpakorn, former university lecturer at Chulalongkorn University
  • Ivan van Sertima, historian and anthropologist, professor of African studies at Rutgers University
  • William Montgomery Watt, historian and Islamic scholar
  • Timothy J. Winter, aka Abdul Hakim Murad, Islamic scholar, author and teacher
  • Ehsan Yarshater, Iranian studies
  • Rosemarie Said Zahlan, historian, writer on the Persian Gulf states
  • Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, prominent contemporary Muslim philosopher and thinker from Malaysia

Music and the arts[]

Paul Robeson, musician and civil rights activist

Business and finance[]

Religion[]

Mirza Tahir Ahmad, fourth Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya

Others[]

Notable faculty and staff[]

See also: Category:Academics of SOAS, University of London

Faculty of Law and Social Sciences[]

Faculty of Arts and Humanities[]

Alexander Piatigorsky, Russian philosopher

Faculty of Languages and Cultures[]

Reginald Johnston, Chinese linguist and tutor to the last Emperor of China

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Your Network - Alumni Worldwide - Notable alumni - SOAS Alumni". Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  2. ^ "Hugh Carless" (obituary), The Telegraph, 21 December 2011. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  3. ^ "Official Portal of The Parliament of Malaysia - Representatives Members". Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  4. ^ "Sir Robin McLaren" (obituary), The Telegraph, 29 July 2010. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  5. ^ Dan Louw, "Dan Mokonyane obituary", The Guardian, 28 November 2010. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  6. ^ Julia Langdon, "Sir Ray Whitney obituary", The Guardian, 19 August 2012. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  7. ^ Jane Perrone (18 December 2003). "Weblog heaven". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 29 April 2010.
  8. ^ "Mature Times – the UK's only free campaigning newspaper". Mature Times. Archived from the original on 30 January 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  9. ^ Eaton, Gai (27 May 2005). "Obituary: Martin Lings". The Guardian. London.
  10. ^ "SOAS given £20m donation from Alphawood foundation". BBC News. 2 November 2013.
  11. ^ "Major Sir Hamish Forbes, Bt" (obituary), The Telegraph, 28 September 2007. Retrieved 17 July 2013.
  12. ^ Paul Bracchi and Rebecca Evans (28 September 2013). "How the White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite was obsessed with Islam as a schoolgirl". NewsComAu. Retrieved 16 July 2015.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  13. ^ "'White Widow' Samantha Lewthwaite wanted by Interpol". CBC News. 26 September 2013. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
  14. ^ Tudor Parfitt (5 January 2010), "Alexander Piatigorsky obituary", The Guardian. Retrieved 17 July 2013.

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