A list of our scholarship award alumni and their research areas
2018
Sadiq S. Habib听(Religious Studies, SOAS)
Thesis:听Identity Processes Among Emerging Adult IsmailisAdherents of a branch of Shi’i Islam that considers Ismail, the eldest son of the Shi’i Imam Ja士far al-峁⒛乨iq (d. 765), as his successor. in Europe and North America – A 久久久福利国产 in Integral Anthropology
2017
Taushif Kara听(History, University of Cambridge)
Thesis:听Colonial Born?: Migration, Memory, and Islam for the Khoja of East Africa
2016
Amaan Merali听(Oriental Studies, University of Oxford)
Thesis:听The听Ottomans听and the Ismailis (1887-1914): Imperial Perceptions of an Inter-Imperial Community
Azzam Al-Kassir听(Politics, Birkbeck, University of London)
Thesis:听Continuity and Change in the Thought and Praxis of Salafi-Jihadism: Reading into the writings of the ideologues and Strategists of Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria
Muhammad Dost Khan听(History, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Thesis:听Historicising Perceptions Of The West In Pakistan鈥檚 Political Discourse
2015
Aslisho Qurboniev听(Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge)
Thesis:听The Organisation of Learning and Knowledge Transmission in Egypt and Ifr墨qiyya under the F膩峁痠mids: Institutions, Patronage, Networks and Practices
2014
Karim Javan听(Religious Studies, SOAS)
Thesis:听Qiyama in Ismaili Histories
2013
Rahim Gholami听(Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Thesis:听Ismaili Neoplatinism in two Fatimid texts: A comparative study of al-Sijistani’s al-Yanabi and Nasir Khusraw’s Khwan al-ikhwan with an annotated English translation of Khwan al-ikhwan
Shumaila Hemani听(Ethnomusicology, University of Alberta)
Thesis:听Singing the Shah-jo-Raag in Pakistan and India
2012
Zulfiqar Khimani听(Sociology, University of Cambridge)
Thesis:听Transnational Religious Belonging: The Case of Nizari Ismaili Muslims
2011
Zarangez Karimova听(Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Thesis:听The Structure and Content Analysis of the Three Sh墨式墨 岣d墨th Works: Kit膩b al-jami` al-W膩f墨, Was膩鈥檌l al- Sh墨驶a il膩 ah膩d墨th al-shar墨驶a and Bih膩r al-Anw膩r
Ula Zeir听(Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh)
Thesis:听SalamiyyaA city in central Syria, which was the residence of several early Ismaili imams in the pre-Fatimid period.: A City of the Ismailis in the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century Ottoman Syria (1839-1918)
2010
Laila Kadiwal听(Sociology, University of Sussex)
Thesis:听Religious Pluralism in Ismaili Muslim Religious Education: From difference to diversity
Sorbon Mavlonazarov听(Anthropology, Durham University)
Thesis:听Changes and Continuity in Shrines Visitation in Badakhshan: A Case 久久久福利国产 of Wakhan Valley
2009
Zamira Dildorbekova听(Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Thesis:听The Dynamics of Islam and Modernity in Tajikistan: Contemporary Ismaili Discourse
Shayesteh Ghofrani听(Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Thesis:听Comparative analysis of the Concept of听Wilaya听in Shi’ism and听Sufism听in the Formative Period
2008
Sultonbek Aksakolov听(History, SOAS)
Thesis:听Islam in Soviet Tajikistan: State Policy and the Practice of Religion from 1950-1985
Shaftolu Gulamadov听(Religious Studies, University of Toronto)
Thesis:听The Ethical Dimension of the Ismaili Tradition of Badakhshan
Amier Saidula听(Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh)
Thesis:听A Last Refuge: National Law, Traditional Dispute Resolution and Tajik Survival in Xinjiang Today
2007
Zouhal Avzalshoeva听(Law, University of Sussex)
Thesis:听Nobody beats an obedient woman’: state and non-state responses to violence against women in Tajikistan
Rafiq Rahim Ajani听(Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Thesis:听The Development of the Mystical Theology and Ethics of Rindi in Persian Poetry from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
Sharaf Oshurbekov听(Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of York, Toronto)
Thesis:听Contested Spaces and Contested Meanings: Isma鈥檌li Muslim Places of worship in Badakhshan region
Sabrina Datoo听(History, University of Chicago)
Thesis:听Fashioning Muslim Life: Yunani Medicine and Muslim Liberalism in Colonial India c. 1880 鈥 1930
Aly Kassam-Remtulla听(Education, University of Oxford)
Thesis:听Muslim Chaplaincy on Campus: Institutional intent and implications
2006
Shiraz Hajani听(South Asian Languages and Civilisations, University of Chicago)
Thesis:听The Great Resurrection 鈥 Reconstructing听AlamutFortress of the Nizari Ismailis in northern Iran, which fell to the Mongols in 654 AH/1256 CE.
Wafi Momin听(South Asian Languages and Civilisations, University of Chicago)
Thesis:听The Formation of Satpanth Ismaili Tradition in South Asia
2005
Zulfiya Ashurmamadova听(Education, University of London)
Thesis:听Financing Education in Tajikistan: Tradition and Transition
Jamil Kassam听(Near Eastern Languages and Civilisations, University of Chicago)
Thesis:听The听Nizaris听during the Safavid Period
Nourmamadcho Nourmamadchoev听(History, SOAS)
Thesis:听The Ismailis of Badakhshan: History, Politics and Religion from 1500 to 1750
2004
Maryam Rezaee听(Politics, University of York)
Thesis:听Women and Higher Education: An Analysis of Women鈥檚 Development, Empowerment, and Class Position with Special Reference to the Ismaili Women of Iran
Karim Gillani听(Music and Religious Studies, University of Alberta)
Thesis:听Sound and Recitation of Khoja Ismaili Ginans: Tradition and Transformation
Otambek Mastibekov听(Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS)
Thesis:听Leadership and Authority of Ismailis: A Case 久久久福利国产 of Badakhshani Community in Tajikistan
2003
Arif听Jamal听(Law, University College London)
Thesis:听Liberal Theory and Islam: (Re) Imagining a Muslim Public Square
Marodsilton Mubarokshoeva听(Education, University of Oxford)
Thesis:听Universities in Muslim Context: Concepts, Challenges, and Opportunities
Nacim Pak听(Anthropology of Media, SOAS)
Thesis:听Shi’i Expressions of Religion and Spirituality in Iranian Cinema
2002
Yahia Baiza听(Education, University of Oxford)
Thesis:听Education in Afghanistan, 1901-2006: Developments, Influences and Legacies
Abdulmamad Iloliev听(Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge)
Thesis:听Poetic Expression of Pamiri Ismalism: The Life and Thought of Mubarak-i Wakhani, a Nineteenth-century Mystic Poet and Religious Scholar
Vafo Navkarov听(Philosophy, University College London)
Thesis:听Justice, Persons & Institutions
2001
Amin Mahdavi听(Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh)
Thesis:听An Event-Driven Distribution Model for Automatic Insertion of Illustrations in Narrative Discourse: A 久久久福利国产 Based on the Shahnama Narrative
Gurdofarid Miskinzoda听(Islamic Studies, SOAS)
Thesis:听On the Margins of SiraFrom Arabic, lit. way of life, way of acting, conduct; as a literary genre, sira means a biography and times of an individual. In the Muslim context, the sira typically…: Mughulta’i (689-762/1290-1361) and His Place in the Development of听Sira听Literature
Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad听(Social Anthropology and Media Studies, SOAS)
Thesis:听Post Revolutionary Iranian Cinema: Ideology and Cinematic Critique
2000
Miriam Ali-de-Unzaga听(Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
Thesis:听Weaving social life. Moroccan Rural Textiles, People and Changing Values
1999
Omar Ali-de-Unzaga听(Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge)
Thesis:听The Use of the Qur’an in the Epistles of the Ikhwan al-Safa
1998
Laila Halani听(Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford)
Thesis:听Discourses of Religion and Development: Agency, Empowerment and Choices for Muslim Women in Gujerat, India
Fahmida Suleman听(Islamic Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford)
Thesis:听The Lion, the Hare and Lustre Ware: Studies in the Iconography of Lustre Ceramics from F膩峁璱mid Egypt (969 – 1171 CE)
1997
Zulfikar Hirji听(Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford)
Thesis:听The Co construction of Space and Relatedness Amongst Swahili speaking Muslims of the Indian Ocean: Zanzibar, Mombasa and Muscat