Sir Thomas Adams's Professor of Arabic

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]

  1. ^ Chalmers, Alexander. The General Biographical Dictionary: Containing an Historical and Critical Account of the Lives and Writings of the most Eminent Persons in Every Nation; Particularly the British and Irish; from the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time. new ed. rev. and enl. London: Nichols [et al.], 1812-1817. 32 vols.
  2. ^ Brooke, Christopher; Highfield, Roger; Swaan, Wim, photographs by (1988). Oxford and Cambridge. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press. p. 180. ISBN 0-521-30139-4.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)