Christopher Tingley is an English academic and translator of Arabic literature.
Tingley is noted as a translator of classic and modern Arabic literature.
He has helped to translate book-length works by writers such as Zayd Mutee Dammaj, Ibrahim al-Koni, Yahya Yakhlif and Yusuf al-Qa'id.
He has served as style editor of PROTA, the Project of Translation from Arabic established by Khadra Jayyusi in 1980.
He has also contributed to numerous anthologies of Arabic literature in English, many of them published by PROTA.