Dr Aslisho Qurboniev

Research Associate
Biography Research Publications Teaching Talks
Aslisho Qurboniev in a grey blazer and a blue shirt posing for a picture.
  • “The Application of Stylometry to Premodern Arabic texts: The Elusive Case of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ”, Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, Montreal, 2-5 November 2023.
  •  “Text Reuse and the Consolidation of the Mālikī Legal School in the Tenth Century”, Le Groupement d’Intérêt Scientifique (GIS) du CNRS  Moyen-Orient et Mondes Musulmans (MOMM), Université de Lyon, 11-13 July 2023.
  • “Tusi and his Ismaili writings: a reconsideration of the earliest revision of Akhlāq-i Nāṣirī – MS Punjab 1557”, BRAIS, London 15-16 May 2023.
  • “Communal Boundaries, Boundary Spanners, and Religious Change in Tenth-Eleventh Century Ifrīqiya.” Leeds International Medieval Congress (IMC-2022), University of Leeds, 4-7 July 2022.
  • “The Formation of the Mālikī school: Towards a computational analysis of the Mālikī textual tradition.”  De la formation et l’établissement de l’école: stabilisation doctrinale et normalisation sociale du maḏhhab malikite, Université de Lausanne, 4 June 2022.
  • "Textual Communities and Fatimid Cosmopolitanism." Fatimid Cosmopolitanism: History, Material Culture, Politics, and Religion conference organised by the IIS. 6 December 2021, London.
  • "Memory, Texts, and Religious Change: The Mālikization of the Maghrib.” Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Online. 2 December 2021.
  • “The Transmission and Canonisation of Saḥnūn’s Mudawwana and the Formation of Mālikism in the Islamic West.” Canon and Censorship in the Islamic Intellectual and Theological History, conference organised by Berlin Institute for Islamic Theology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. 8-10 October 2021.
  • “Memory and Textual Communities: An Analysis of Saḥnūn’s Mudawwana.” Arabic Pasts: Histories and Historiographies, Annual Workshop organised by AKU-ISMC and SOAS. London. 7-9 October 2021.
  • “What can Stylometry Tell Us about the Anonymous Brethren of Purity and their Epistles?” The Third International Ismaili Studies Conference, Leiden University. 6-10 August 2021.
  • “The Idea of the Silk Road: Soviet and Central Asian Perspectives.” The Idea of the Silk Road: Historians Debate and Discuss this Modern Concept,” (Silk Road Events, AKF), London. 07.07.2021.
  • “The Khurāsānians: Mapping the Presence of Eastern Iranians in Medieval Islamic Society and Thought.” Islamic Traditions in ‘Greater Khurāsān”: Ismailis, Sufis, and Sunnis, [Online], The Institute of Ismaili Studies, London. 24-27 February 2021.
  • “Doing Digital History”,  invited presentation at Newcastle University School of Classics, History and Archaeology’s History Research Seminar, 1 March 2023.
  • "Shiʿi and Sunni Hadith in the OpenITI corpus." Invited presentation at Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi'ite Islam (LAWALISI) Project Workshop at the University of Exeter. 8 December 2021.