Sir James Norman Dalrymple Anderson OBE QC FBA (29 September 1908 – 2 December 1994) was a British lawyer, missionary, and Arabist.
Anderson's research on Islamic law broke new ground in Britain through its focus on modern legal codes in the Middle East and Africa.
Anderson highlighted the hybrid mixture of Western and Islamic concepts which such codes adopted and which he believed would characterize future legal reforms.
[4] Anderson was a prominent evangelical layman in the Church of England serving as the first chairman of the House of Laity of the General Synod from 1970 to 1979.
In this role he helped to secure a compromise agreement with the Prime Minister that guaranteed the church a greater degree of independence from the state in the choice of its bishops.