Julia Bray

Julia Margaret Bray is a British scholar of Oriental studies who specialises in Medieval to Early Modern Arabic literature.

Since September 2012, she has been the Laudian Professor of Arabic at the University of Oxford. She co-edits (with Wen-chin Ouyang) the Edinburgh Studies in Classical Arabic Literature monograph series, published by Edinburgh University Press. Bray previously taught Arabic and Arabic literature at the universities of Manchester, Edinburgh and St Andrews. From 2003 to 2012, she was Professeur de littérature arabe médiévale at the Paris 8 University.