Current Doctoral Scholarship recipients
2026
Hidoyatullo Shozodamamadov
GPISH 2025
Hidoyatullo Shozodamamadov was awarded the IIS Farhad Daftary Doctoral Scholarship to pursue a DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Oxford.
Thesis: Ismaili hermeneutic interpretation (岳温幣敬朝鉛The elucidation of the inner or esoteric meaning, b畊in , from the literal wording or apparent meaning of a text, ritual or religious prescription.) in anti-Ismaili Polemical Literature
Muhammad Ali Sohail
GPISH 2025
Thesis: Synthetic Canons and Algorithmic Authority: Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Transformation of Collective Memory among Global Nizari IsmailisAdherents of a branch of Shi’i Islam that considers Ismail, the eldest son of the Shi’i Imam Ja平far al-畊diq (d. 765), as his successor.
2025
Saad Barcha
GPISH 2025
Saad Barcha, a GPISH graduate from the class of 2025 and originally from Hunza, is a recipient of the Farhad Daftary Doctoral Scholarship and is currently pursuing his PhD in Music at the University of Oxford.
2024
Guldastasho Alibakhshov
GPISH 2023
Guldastasho Alibakhshov was awarded the IIS Farhad Daftary Doctoral Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London.
Thesis: Rebuilding Diasporic Community: Memory and Identity in the Tajik-Ismaili Diaspora in Russia.
Muhammad Salim
GPISH 2024
Muhammad Salim was awarded the IIS Farhad Daftary Doctoral Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
Thesis: The Impact of Digital Communication Technologies on the Socio-Religious Experiences of the Nizari Ismaili Muslim Community.
2023
Farhan Feroz Ali
GPISH 2023
Farhan Feroz Ali was awarded the IIS Farhad Daftary Doctoral Scholarship to pursue a PhD in History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS, University of London.
Thesis:油Translating echoes divine, or socio-sensorial experiences at Bhitshahs shrine.
2022
Anika Kabani
GPISH 2022
Anika Kabani was awarded the IIS Doctoral Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Anthropology at the University of Oxford.
Thesis:油Negotiating Muslimness: Humanitarian Legal Regimes and the Shaping of the Muslim Subject.
2021
Abdul Wahid Khan
GPISH 2021
Abdul Wahid Khan was awarded the IIS Doctoral Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford.
Thesis:油The Blessings of the Commons for the Local Community (and More-than-Humans) of Chitral, Pakistan: An Apocalypse of a Culturalscape and Muslims Approaches to Climate Change.
Uzair Ibrahim
GPISH 2021
Uzair Ibrahim was awarded the IIS Doctoral Scholarship to pursue a PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter.
Thesis:油Amid Worlds Seen and Unseen: A Genealogy of History, Tradition, and Memory in South Asian Sh朝平朝 Islam
This thesis will build on his MA, situating the commemoration of the martyrdom of油Imam油Hussain and his family within the broader intellectual history of Islamic occult and metaphysical thought.