A list of our scholarship award alumni and their research areas
2020
Imran Visram (Theology and Religion, the University of Oxford)
Thesis: Preservation and Migration of the Indo-Ismaili Ginn Tradition
Karam Alkatlabe ( Architecture, Cambridge University)
Thesis: Rebuilding Syria: What is the Future of Housing and Informal Settlements in Post-war Damascus in light of the Current Reconstruction Process?
2019
Qurratulain Faheem (Anthropology, University of Sussex)
Thesis:泭Exploring the Variant Perceptions of the Human Body in Muslim Diverse Communities and its Impact on their Approaches Towards Organ Transplantation Exploring the Variant Perceptions of the Human Body in Muslim Diverse Communities and its Impact on their Approaches Towards Organ Transplantation
2018
Sadiq S. Habib泭(Religious Studies, SOAS)
Thesis:泭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尪far al-廜〢diq (d. 765), as his successor. in Europe and North America – A Study in Integral Anthropology
2017
Taushif Kara泭(History, University of Cambridge)
Thesis:泭Colonial Born?: Migration, Memory, and Islam for the Khoja of East Africa
2016
Amaan Merali泭(Oriental Studies, University of Oxford)
Thesis:泭The泭Ottomans泭and the Ismailis (1887-1914): Imperial Perceptions of an Inter-Imperial Community
Azzam Al-Kassir泭(Politics, Birkbeck, University of London)
Thesis:泭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泭(History, Royal Holloway, University of London)
Thesis:泭Historicising Perceptions Of The West In Pakistans Political Discourse
2015
Aslisho Qurboniev泭(Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge)
Thesis:泭The Organisation of Learning and Knowledge Transmission in Egypt and Ifr蘋qiyya under the F廜疳mids: Institutions, Patronage, Networks and Practices
2014
Karim Javan泭(Religious Studies, SOAS)
Thesis:泭Qiyama in Ismaili Histories
2013
Rahim Gholami泭(Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Thesis:泭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泭(Ethnomusicology, University of Alberta)
Thesis:泭Singing the Shah-jo-Raag in Pakistan and India
2012
Zulfiqar Khimani泭(Sociology, University of Cambridge)
Thesis:泭Transnational Religious Belonging: The Case of Nizari Ismaili Muslims
2011
Zarangez Karimova泭(Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Thesis:泭The Structure and Content Analysis of the Three Sh蘋宒蘋 廎兀d蘋th Works: Kitb al-jami` al-Wf蘋, Wasil al- Sh蘋妡a il ahd蘋th al-shar蘋妡a and Bihr al-Anwr
Ula Zeir泭(Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Edinburgh)
Thesis:泭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泭(Sociology, University of Sussex)
Thesis:泭Religious Pluralism in Ismaili Muslim Religious Education: From difference to diversity
Sorbon Mavlonazarov泭(Anthropology, Durham University)
Thesis:泭Changes and Continuity in Shrines Visitation in Badakhshan: A Case Study of Wakhan Valley
2009
Zamira Dildorbekova泭(Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Thesis:泭The Dynamics of Islam and Modernity in Tajikistan: Contemporary Ismaili Discourse
Shayesteh Ghofrani泭(Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Thesis:泭Comparative analysis of the Concept of泭Wilaya泭in Shi’ism and泭Sufism泭in the Formative Period
2008
Sultonbek Aksakolov泭(History, SOAS)
Thesis:泭Islam in Soviet Tajikistan: State Policy and the Practice of Religion from 1950-1985
Shaftolu Gulamadov泭(Religious Studies, University of Toronto)
Thesis:泭The Ethical Dimension of the Ismaili Tradition of Badakhshan
Amier Saidula泭(Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh)
Thesis:泭A Last Refuge: National Law, Traditional Dispute Resolution and Tajik Survival in Xinjiang Today
2007
Zouhal Avzalshoeva泭(Law, University of Sussex)
Thesis:泭Nobody beats an obedient woman’: state and non-state responses to violence against women in Tajikistan
Rafiq Rahim Ajani泭(Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter)
Thesis:泭The Development of the Mystical Theology and Ethics of Rindi in Persian Poetry from the Eleventh to Fifteenth Centuries
Sharaf Oshurbekov泭(Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of York, Toronto)
Thesis:泭Contested Spaces and Contested Meanings: Ismaili Muslim Places of worship in Badakhshan region
Sabrina Datoo泭(History, University of Chicago)
Thesis:泭Fashioning Muslim Life: Yunani Medicine and Muslim Liberalism in Colonial India c. 1880 1930
Aly Kassam-Remtulla泭(Education, University of Oxford)
Thesis:泭Muslim Chaplaincy on Campus: Institutional intent and implications
2006
Shiraz Hajani泭(South Asian Languages and Civilisations, University of Chicago)
Thesis:泭The Great Resurrection Reconstructing泭AlamutFortress of the Nizari Ismailis in northern Iran, which fell to the Mongols in 654 AH/1256 CE.
Wafi Momin泭(South Asian Languages and Civilisations, University of Chicago)
Thesis:泭The Formation of Satpanth Ismaili Tradition in South Asia
2005
Zulfiya Ashurmamadova泭(Education, University of London)
Thesis:泭Financing Education in Tajikistan: Tradition and Transition
Jamil Kassam泭(Near Eastern Languages and Civilisations, University of Chicago)
Thesis:泭The泭Nizaris泭during the Safavid Period
Nourmamadcho Nourmamadchoev泭(History, SOAS)
Thesis:泭The Ismailis of Badakhshan: History, Politics and Religion from 1500 to 1750
2004
Maryam Rezaee泭(Politics, University of York)
Thesis:泭Women and Higher Education: An Analysis of Womens Development, Empowerment, and Class Position with Special Reference to the Ismaili Women of Iran
Karim Gillani泭(Music and Religious Studies, University of Alberta)
Thesis:泭Sound and Recitation of Khoja Ismaili Ginans: Tradition and Transformation
Otambek Mastibekov泭(Near and Middle Eastern Studies, SOAS)
Thesis:泭Leadership and Authority of Ismailis: A Case Study of Badakhshani Community in Tajikistan
2003
Arif泭Jamal泭(Law, University College London)
Thesis:泭Liberal Theory and Islam: (Re) Imagining a Muslim Public Square
Marodsilton Mubarokshoeva泭(Education, University of Oxford)
Thesis:泭Universities in Muslim Context: Concepts, Challenges, and Opportunities
Nacim Pak泭(Anthropology of Media, SOAS)
Thesis:泭Shi’i Expressions of Religion and Spirituality in Iranian Cinema
2002
Yahia Baiza泭(Education, University of Oxford)
Thesis:泭Education in Afghanistan, 1901-2006: Developments, Influences and Legacies
Abdulmamad Iloliev泭(Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge)
Thesis:泭Poetic Expression of Pamiri Ismalism: The Life and Thought of Mubarak-i Wakhani, a Nineteenth-century Mystic Poet and Religious Scholar
Vafo Navkarov泭(Philosophy, University College London)
Thesis:泭Justice, Persons & Institutions
2001
Amin Mahdavi泭(Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science, University of Edinburgh)
Thesis:泭An Event-Driven Distribution Model for Automatic Insertion of Illustrations in Narrative Discourse: A Study Based on the Shahnama Narrative
Gurdofarid Miskinzoda泭(Islamic Studies, SOAS)
Thesis:泭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泭Sira泭Literature
Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad泭(Social Anthropology and Media Studies, SOAS)
Thesis:泭Post Revolutionary Iranian Cinema: Ideology and Cinematic Critique
2000
Miriam Ali-de-Unzaga泭(Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford)
Thesis:泭Weaving social life. Moroccan Rural Textiles, People and Changing Values
1999
Omar Ali-de-Unzaga泭(Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge)
Thesis:泭The Use of the Qur’an in the Epistles of the Ikhwan al-Safa
1998
Laila Halani泭(Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford)
Thesis:泭Discourses of Religion and Development: Agency, Empowerment and Choices for Muslim Women in Gujerat, India
Fahmida Suleman泭(Islamic Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford)
Thesis:泭The Lion, the Hare and Lustre Ware: Studies in the Iconography of Lustre Ceramics from F廜虹mid Egypt (969 – 1171 CE)
1997
Zulfikar Hirji泭(Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford)
Thesis:泭The Co construction of Space and Relatedness Amongst Swahili speaking Muslims of the Indian Ocean: Zanzibar, Mombasa and Muscat