Current Dissertation Writing Scholarship recipients
2025
Seddigheh Kardan
McGill University, Canada
Dissertation title: Shahrastn朝 and the Ism平朝l朝 Da平wah: Investigating Shahrastn朝s Influence By and On the Missionaries (d平朝s) and Thoughts of the F畊imid and Nizr朝 Periods.
Rami Gargour
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto in Canada
Dissertation title: Advancing the Learner Profile and International Mindedness of the International Bachelorette (IB): Exploring School Leaders Perceptions and Practices across the four the Aga KhanA title granted by the Shah of Persia to the then Ismaili Imam in 1818 and inherited by each of his successors to the Imamate. Academies Globally.
A list of our scholarship award alumni and their research areas
2024
Vineet Gupta
PhD (Religion) at the Graduate Department of Religion, Vanderbilt University, Nashville (USA)
Dissertation Title: The Dai: Articulating Authority among Daudi BohrasA subdivision of Tayyibi Musta平li Ismailis. of South Asia, 1787-1921.
2023
Timothy Garrett (Islamic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles)
Dissertation title: Ma畊im al-hud wa-al-i畊Ｄba f朝 taf畍朝l Al朝 al al-畊a畍ツba, an understudied work by the famed Fatimid scholar 畍am朝d al-D朝n al-Kirmn朝.
2011
Shatha Almutawa油(University of Chicago)
Dissertation title:油The Use of Narrative in Rasail Ikhwan al-Safa: Imagination at the Intersections of Religion, Philosophy and Science
2010
Far竪s Gillon油(Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
Dissertation title:油Un trait辿 isma辿lien primitif, le Kit但b al-Kashf (Livre du d辿voilement) attribu辿 au D但樽 Jafar B
Mans短r al-Yaman (pr辿sentation, 辿dition, traduction, commentaire)
2009
Maryann Shenoda油(Harvard University)
Dissertation title:油Imagining Persecution: Copto-Arabic Opposition to Islamisation and Arabisation in Fatimid Egypt
2008
Jamel A. Velji油(University of California at Santa Barbara)
Dissertation title:油Apocalyptic Hermeneutics and the Strengthening of Empire: The Case of the Early Fatimids
2007
Zackery M. Heern油(University of Utah)
Dissertation title:油Laying Foundations for Orthodoxy: Transformation of Shi’ism during the Time of Muhammad Baqir Bihbihani
2006
Jennifer Pruitt油(Harvard University)
Dissertation title:油A Tale of Two Cities: Locating the Courtly and the Urban in Classical Fatimid Visual Culture (975-1036 CE)
2005
Hasan Ali Khan油(School of Oriental and African Studies)
Dissertation title:油ShiaConnections of the Sufi Heritage of the Indus Valley: With Special Reference to Ismaili Monuments
2004
Aliaa Ezz ElDinEl Sandouby油(University of California, Los Angeles)
Dissertation title:油Remembering theAhl al-Bayt: The Shrines of the Family of the Prophet in Cairo, Damascus and Aleppo
2003
Orkhan Mir-Kasimov油(Sorbonne University)
Dissertation title:油A Study of ancient Hurufi texts and manuscripts
2002
Samer Traboulsi油(Princeton University)
Dissertation title:油The Tayyibi鴛壊馨温i鉛庄壊in Medieval Yemen: A Case Study in the Formation of an Islamic Sect
David Hollenberg油(University of Pennsylvania)
Dissertation title:油Interpretation after the End of Days: The Ismaili spokesman Jafar ibn Mansur al Yaman (d. ca. 980 CE) on Prophets and Politics
2001
Elisabeth Alexandrin油(McGill University)
Dissertation title:油The Sphere of Walayah: Ismaili意温w庄鉛in Practice according to al-Muayyad (d. 1078 CE)
