The SOAS library is housed in the Philips Building on the Russell Square campus and was built in 1973.

When the Head of the Department of History, Professor C. H. Philips, was promoted to the Directorship of SOAS, Professor Basham became the Head of History, a position he kept until 1965 when he joined the Australian National University (" ANU ") in Canberra as Head of the History Department and Professor of Oriental ( later Asian ) Civilizations.

Following this acclaimed design Lasdun designed two buildings for the University of London, one for SOAS ( 1970 ) and another for the Institute of Education ( 1970 – 1976 ), which was particularly controversial in its insertion into the previous street plan of squares and terraces, which it tried to replicate in a more Brutalist manner.

The Gallery stages a comprehensive programme of temporary exhibitions of both historical and contemporary materials which reflect subjects and regions studied at SOAS.

" and " University occupations also took place at Manchester, Sheffield, Cambridge, Colchester Sixth Form, Brighton, SOAS and UCL and the LSE in London.

Liu, a colleague of Walter Simon's at SOAS, published Fifty Chinese Stories.

After studying at French missionary schools in Bhamdoun and Broummana, he completed his secondary education at the Prep School in Beirut ( now International College ), and his BA in History and Political Science from AUB, before moving to the School of Oriental and African Studies, SOAS ( University of London ) where he earned his PhD in history in 1953 under the supervision of historian Bernard Lewis.

John Edward Wansbrough ( February 19, 1928 – June 10, 2002 ) was an American historian who taught at the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ).

Born in Peoria, Illinois, Wansbrough completed his studies at Harvard University, and spent the rest of his academic career at SOAS.

Arberry was appointed to the Chair of Persian at the School of Oriental and African Studies SOAS, University of London 1944 – 47.

In 1939, at the age of 28, Xiao Qian returned to England to work as an instructor in modern Chinese language for the School of Oriential and African Studies ( SOAS ) in London.

Thapar is an Honorary Fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, and at the School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ), University of London.

* Simin Behbahani reads poetry at SOAS, University of London, 6 February 2005, YouTube, ( Part 1 ), ( Part 2 ).

George Baker, Observations at Persaim and in the Journey to Ava and Back in 1755 SOAS

* The School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ) at University of London entered a global partnership to enable ACCA members and affiliates to enroll in SOAS's Postgraduate Diploma in Public Financial Management.

Born in Hamadan, Persia, Ehsan Yarshater studied Persian language and literature at the University of Tehran and Iran philology ( Old and Middle Iranian ) at the School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ), University of London with Walter Bruno Henning.

In 1948, Boyce was appointed lecturer of Iranian Studies at SOAS, specialising in Manichaen, Zoroastrian Middle Persian and Parthian texts.

At SOAS, she was promoted to Reader ( 1958 – 1961 ) and subsequently awarded the University of London's professorship in Iranian Studies following Henning's transfer to the University of California at Berkeley.

Boyce remained professor at SOAS until her retirement in 1982, continuing as Professor Emerita and a professorial research associate until her death in 2006.

Robert Irwin read modern history at the University of Oxford, and did graduate research at the School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ) under the supervision of Bernard Lewis.

He gave up academic life in 1977 in order to write fiction, while continuing to lecture part-time at Oxford, Cambridge and SOAS.

The Vernon Square campus in Islington, opened in 2001, is close to King's Cross railway station and only a few hundred yards from Dinwiddy House and Paul Robeson House, exclusive to SOAS students and owned by Sanctuary Management Student Housing.

The archives of the Chinese Maritime Customs are maintained by the School of Oriental and African Studies, London ( SOAS ).

In their book Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World, Crone and her associate Michael Cook, working at SOAS at the time, provided an analysis of early Islamic history by looking at the only surviving contemporary accounts of the rise of Islam, written in Armenian, Greek, Aramaic and Syriac by witnesses.

The archives of the Movement for Colonial Freedom are maintained by the School of Oriental and African Studies, London ( SOAS ).

He went on to take a BA in Sanskrit from the School of Oriental and African Studies (" SOAS ") and then worked in the Civil Defence Department during World War II.

AcSS, Pro Director, School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ), University of London

After the war he returned to SOAS and began researching for a Ph. D under Professor L. D. Barnett.

* Honorary Fellow, School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ), 2011

Muwashshah: proceedings of the Conference on Arabic and Hebrew Strophic Poetry and its Romance Parallels, School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ), London, 8-10 October 2004.

SOAS, University of London ( officially the School of Oriental and African Studies, informally SOAS ( or )) is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom specialising in humanities, languages, and social sciences relating to Asia, Africa and the Middle East, and a constituent college of the University of London.

Located in central London, SOAS describes itself as the " world's leading centre for the study of a highly diverse range of subjects concerned with Asia, Africa and the Middle East ", and is consistently ranked amongst the top universities in the UK.

SOAS is partnered with the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales ( INALCO ) of Paris.

INALCO is often considered the French equivalent of SOAS.

SOAS is currently split into two campuses within 20 minutes walk of each other.

SOAS is world famous as a " leading centre for the study of a highly diverse range of subjects concerned with Asia, Africa and the Middle East.

Although it is debatable whether University League Tables can accurately compare the quality of small specialised research institutions such as SOAS to general universities with tens of thousands of students and departments in nearly every academic discipline, or even to other specialised institutes with completely different kinds of focuses, in 2005, SOAS placed 4th among United Kingdom universities in a Guardian poll.

SOAS is also regarded for its focus on small group teaching with a student-staff ratio of only 11: 1 and some departments 6: 1.

This is a particularly significant achievement given that SOAS is the only top-ranked department to specialize, more or less exclusively, in the peoples and diasporas of Africa, Asia and the Near and Middle East.

According to the 2008 United Kingdom Research Assessment Exercise, SOAS is the national leader in the study of Asia.

Lord Bagri is one of the governors of the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies ( SOAS ).

It is a branch of area studies, and many Western universities combine Asian and African studies in a single faculty or institute, like SOAS in London.

Irwin is currently a Research Associate at SOAS, and the Middle East editor of The Times Literary Supplement.

The INALCO is the French partner of the British SOAS which now teaches mainly Asian and African languages.