Garth Lowther Fowden,FBA (born 14 January 1953), is ahistorian. He wasSultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths at theUniversity of Cambridge from 2013 to 2020.

Born on 14 January 1953, Garth Fowden was educated atMerton College, Oxford; he graduated in 1974 and completed adoctorate there in 1979 under the title "Pagan philosophers in late antique society: with special reference toIamblichus and his followers". Fowden was a research fellow atPeterhouse, Cambridge, from 1978 to 1982 and then atDarwin College, Cambridge, until he took up a lectureship at theUniversity of Groningen in 1983. In 1985, he moved to a research position at theNational Research Foundation inAthens and remained there until being appointedSultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths at theUniversity of Cambridge in 2013.^[1][2] His former Ph.D. student, Valentina A. Grasso, is now a professor at Bard College in New York.^[3]

According to his British Academy profile, Fowden's research focuses on "intellectual currents and imperial horizons in the first millennium CE, from Augustus to Avicenna, Central Asia to the Atlantic" as well as "emergent Islam in its late antique context".^[4]

In 2015, Fowden was elected aFellow of the British Academy, the United Kingdom'snational academy for the humanities and social sciences.^[4]

• The Egyptian Hermes: A Historical Approach to the Late Pagan Mind (Cambridge University Press, 1986).
• Empire to Commonwealth: Consequences of Monotheism in Late Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 1993).
• Quṣayr 'Amra: Art and the Umayyad Elite in Late Antique Syria (University of California Press, 2004).
• Before and after Muḥammad: The First Millennium Refocused (Princeton University Press, 2014).
• Abraham or Aristotle? First Millennium Empires and Exegetical Traditions. An Inaugural Lecture by the Sultan Qaboos Professor of Abrahamic Faiths Given in the University of Cambridge, 4 December 2013 (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015).

• Profile at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
• Landscapes and monuments: Iran to Spain. Fowden's photographic archive that he developed while conducting his research. Digitised inCambridge Digital Library.
• Landscapes and monuments: Iran to Spain. An essay by Garth Fowden (2018)

• 1953 births
• Living people
• Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
• Fellows of Peterhouse, Cambridge
• Fellows of Darwin College, Cambridge
• Fellows of the British Academy

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