A list of our scholarship award alumni and their research areas
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