Dissertation Writing Scholarship

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2011

Shatha Almutawa (University of Chicago) The Use of Narrative in Rasa’il Ikhwan al-Safa: Imagination at the Intersections of Religion, Philosophy and Science

2010

Farès Gillon (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris) Un traité ismaélien primitif, le Kitâb al-Kashf (Livre du dévoilement) attribué au Dâ’î Ja’far B
Mansûr al-Yaman (présentation, édition, traduction, commentaire)

2009

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 Traboulsi (Princeton University) 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