He is also, at 58, a disarmingly friendly scholar with a mischievous wit, a full-time assistant, a plush office and the ear of deans and administrators.
In 2008, several historians called to ask him to cancel his three-day conference in Rome, which ultimately drew many Vatican-friendly scholars but few with independent credentials.
She returned to a London not friendly to female scholars.
Some months later, he returns to Tangier, where he finds that Bassam has become friends with Sheikh Nureddin, a friendly and articulate scholar who has started a Muslim Group for the Propagation of Qur'anic Thought.
Having over-hastily devoured all of Robert Crais's LA-set private-eye novels last holiday, I was happy to be told by a friendly crime-fiction scholar of the existence of Robert B Parker.
In contrast to the stuffiness and conformity of many academic settings, gender studies students and scholars are tolerant, friendly, and enlightened in their attitudes to race, sexual orientation and transsexuality.
According to health care decision-makers and scholars, health literacy friendly structures and processes are especially relevant in primary care, which cover large parts of the medical routine care and coordinate care for vulnerable populations, such as chronically ill patients [ 17, 18].
The institute has expert scholars, but is considered friendly to Israel.
"They don't even trust it when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sings 'Silent Night.' " Dr. Mouw has been criticized by some fellow evangelicals for his continuing participation in a friendly dialogue between evangelical and Mormon scholars.
Roger Bacon, a contemporary English scholar who was by no means friendly toward Albertus, spoke of him as "the most noted of Christian scholars".
His teachers remember him as a friendly and popular boy, but no great scholar.
