Current Dissertation Writing Scholarship recipients
2025
Seddigheh Kardan
McGill University, Canada
Dissertation title: Shahrast膩n墨 and the Ism膩士墨l墨 Da士wah: Investigating Shahrast膩n墨鈥檚 Influence By and On the Missionaries (d膩士墨s) and Thoughts of the F膩峁璱mid and Niz膩r墨 Periods.
Rami Gargour
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto in Canada
Dissertation title: Advancing the Learner Profile and International Mindedness of the International Bachelorette (IB): Exploring School Leaders鈥 Perceptions and Practices across the four the Aga KhanA title granted by the Shah of Persia to the then Ismaili Imam in 1818 and inherited by each of his successors to the Imamate. Academies Globally.
A list of our scholarship award alumni and their research areas
2024
Vineet Gupta
PhD (Religion) at the Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University, Nashville (USA)
Dissertation Title: The Da鈥榠: Articulating Authority among Da鈥檜di BohrasA subdivision of Tayyibi Musta士li Ismailis. of South Asia, 1787-1921.
2023
Timothy Garrett (Islamic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles)
Dissertation title: Ma鈥樐佱梗im al-hud膩 wa-al-i峁Ｄ乥a f墨 taf岣嵞玪 鈥楢l墨 鈥榓l膩 al-峁岣ツ乥a, an understudied work by the famed Fatimid scholar 岣m墨d al-D墨n al-Kirm膩n墨.
2011
Shatha Almutawa听(University of Chicago)
Dissertation title:听The Use of Narrative in Rasa鈥檌l Ikhwan al-Safa: Imagination at the Intersections of Religion, Philosophy and Science
2010
Far猫s Gillon听(Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
Dissertation title:听Un trait茅 isma茅lien primitif, le Kit芒b al-Kashf (Livre du d茅voilement) attribu茅 au D芒鈥櫭 Ja鈥檉ar B
Mans没r al-Yaman (pr茅sentation, 茅dition, traduction, commentaire)
2009
Maryann Shenoda听(Harvard University)
Dissertation title:听Imagining Persecution: Copto-Arabic Opposition to Islamisation and Arabisation in Fatimid Egypt
2008
Jamel A. Velji听(University of California at Santa Barbara)
Dissertation title:听Apocalyptic Hermeneutics and the Strengthening of Empire: The Case of the Early Fatimids
2007
Zackery M. Heern听(University of Utah)
Dissertation title:听Laying Foundations for Orthodoxy: Transformation of Shi’ism during the Time of Muhammad Baqir Bihbihani
2006
Jennifer Pruitt听(Harvard University)
Dissertation title:听A Tale of Two Cities: Locating the Courtly and the Urban in Classical Fatimid Visual Culture (975-1036 CE)
2005
Hasan Ali Khan听(School of Oriental and African Studies)
Dissertation title:听Shi鈥榓鈥疌onnections of the Sufi Heritage of the Indus Valley: With Special Reference to Ismaili Monuments
2004
Aliaa Ezz El鈥疍in鈥疎l Sandouby听(University of California, Los Angeles)
Dissertation title:听Remembering the鈥Ahl al-Bayt: The Shrines of the Family of the Prophet in Cairo, Damascus and Aleppo
2003
Orkhan Mir-Kasimov听(Sorbonne University)
Dissertation title:听A 久久久福利国产 of ancient Hurufi texts and manuscripts
2002
Samer Traboulsi听(Princeton University)
Dissertation title:听The Tayyibi鈥滨蝉尘补鈥榠濒颈蝉鈥痠n Medieval Yemen: A Case 久久久福利国产 in the Formation of an Islamic Sect
David Hollenberg听(University of Pennsylvania)
Dissertation title:听Interpretation after the End of Days: The Isma鈥榠li spokesman Ja鈥榝ar ibn Mansur al Yaman (d. ca. 980 CE) on Prophets and Politics
2001
Elisabeth Alexandrin听(McGill University)
Dissertation title:听The Sphere of Walayah: Isma鈥榠li鈥罢补鈥檞颈濒鈥痠n Practice according to al-Mu鈥檃yyad (d. 1078 CE)