Dissertation Writing Scholarship
The Institute of Ismaili Studies welcomes application from graduate students in the field of Islamic Studies who are researching an Ismaili topic for its Dissertation Writing Scholarship. This scholarship carries a stipend of £3000 (or local equivalent), and has been established to assist promising graduate research students and doctoral candidates to complete their fieldwork or dissertation.
The next Scholarship will be awarded in 2013.
Previous Recipients
Shatha Almutawa (University of Chicago)
The Use of Narrative in Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa: Imagination at the Intersections of Religion, Philosophy and Science
Fârès Gillon (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes)
Kitab al-Kashf
Maryann Shenoda (Harvard University)
Imagining Persecution: Copto-Arabic Opposition to Islamisation and Arabisation in Fatimid Egypt.
2008
Jamel A. Velji (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Apocalyptic Hermeneutics and the Strengthening of Empire: The Case of the Early Fatimids.
2007
Zackery M. Heern (University of Utah)
Laying Foundations for Orthodoxy: Transformation of Shi'ism during the Time of Muhammad Baqir Bihbihani.
2006
Jennifer Pruitt (Harvard University)
A Tale of Two Cities: Locating the Courtly and the Urban in Classical Fatimid Visual Culture (975-1036 CE)
2005
Hasan Ali Khan (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Shi‘a Connections of the Sufi Heritage of the Indus Valley: With Special Reference to Ismaili Monuments.
2004
Aliaa Ezz El Din El Sandouby (University of California, Los Angeles)
Remembering the Ahl al-Bayt: The Shrines of the Family of the Prophet in Cairo, Damascus and Aleppo.
2003
Orkhan Mir-Kassimov (Sorbonne University)
A Study of ancient Hurufi texts and manuscripts.
2002
Samer Trabousi (Princeton University)
The Tayyibi Isma‘ilis in Medieval Yemen: A Case Study in the Formation of an Islamic Sect.
The Tayyibi Isma‘ilis in Medieval Yemen: A Case Study in the Formation of an Islamic Sect.
David Hollenberg (University of Pennsylvania)
Interpretation after the End of Days: The Isma‘ili spokesman Ja‘far ibn Mansur al Yaman (d. ca. 980 CE) on Prophets and Politics.
2001
Elisabeth Alexandrin (McGill University)
The Sphere of Walayah: Isma‘ili Ta’wil in Practice according to al-Mu’ayyad (d. 1078 CE).
The Sphere of Walayah: Isma‘ili Ta’wil in Practice according to al-Mu’ayyad (d. 1078 CE).
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