Postgraduate research
Academic staff within CSI supervise doctoral students with a diverse range of current research topics. If you are interested in applying for a place on our programme please see our members' specialisms.
Master of Arts Programmes
Master of Research Programme
The atmosphere at the Institute is buzzing with new research and interesting topics of learning. The community is very international, with conversations in many different languages. Meeting so many people with new perspectives and sharing interests and nuggets of research over coffee or lunch has been brilliant.
Joanne, Arab and Islamic Studies Masters student
Current PhD Students
Ahmed Aldhubayi
Mohammad Ashkanani, The Reception and Survival of the Poetry of Imruʾ al-Qays from the pre-Islamic to the Abbasid Era
Hassan Asiri, The Implicit Patterns in the Hijazi Sensual Ghazal Poetry during the Umayyad Era – A New Historicist Interpretation
Bryar Bajalan
Shahanaz Begum, From Language to Law – Islamic Legal Hermeneutics in the Formative Period
Alice van den Bosch, Creating the Female Martyr in Late Antique North Africa
Majida Deeb Ibrahim, Prominent Features and Translation Strategies of Arabic Feminist Literature: The case of Nawal el-Saadawi and Hanan al-Shaykh
Amir Mohammad Emami, What Has Athens to Do with Mecca and Medina? MÄ«rzÄå MahdÄ« Iá¹£fahÄånÄ« (d. 1365/1946) on God, the Human, and Their Relation
Uzair Ibrahim, Amid Worlds Seen and Unseen: The Imam, the Ghayb, and History in South Asian Shiʿi Islam
Zahra Jafari, Treating ḤadÄ«th Contradictions by Means of Dissimulation in ShīʿīḤadÄ«th Tradition by YÅ«suf b. Aḥmad al-BaḥrÄånÄ«
, The Legal and Ethical Status of the Embryos in Islam
Arghavan Moharrami, The Winds of ZÄår: On Occult Performance among Black Indigenous Communities in the Persian Gulf
Abdulla Saad Moaswes
Majideh Qazizadeh, Islamicate Chess and Its Religious, Social and Scientific Contexts
Elias Ragi, Why Is Death, in Mikhail Naimy’s Literature, Looked at Conflictingly between Punishment and Reward?
Hasti Safavi, The Shrine Ensemble of Shaykh Safi al-Din Ardabili: An Islamic Philosophical Analysis
Mohammad-Payam Saadat Sarmadi, Devil’s Device: Islamic debates about legal analogy in the formative period
Dilshad Sharif
Catherine Tollerton, Is Piety Among Women Important in Understanding the Deoband Movement?
Ibrahim Urkac
Farhan Zaidi, The Ontology and Epistemology of Revelation in MullÄåá¹¢adrÄå
Awarded PhD Students
Faris Abdel-Hadi,
Saliha Osama Farid Abdelkhalek,
Francis Acquah,
Babar Ahmed,
Zubir Rasool Ahmed,
Jaber Mohammed Alahmari,
Usama Al-Atar,
Ranyh Alatawi,
Sayed Ismail Albehbehani,
Khalid Abdulaziz Aldakheel,
Ahmad Alfaraj, The Influence of the Discovery of Oil on the Poetry of a Selection of Modern Blind Poets from the Gulf Region
Saleh Owaid Alharbi, The Image of the West in Saudi poetry 1920-1990
Ghazoan Ali, Substance and Things: Dualism and Unity in the Early Islamic Cultural Field
Mehrdad Alipour, Negotiating Homosexuality in Contemporary Shīʿī Islam: a legal-hermeneutical analysis of Twelver ImÄåmÄ« Shīʿī Islamic sources
Salih Maddah H Aljedani,
Maryam Alkandari,
Ahmed Mukhtar Tweirsh Al-Malik,
Abdullah Alobaid,
Abdullah Abdulrahman A Aloraini,
Reem Saud Al Rudainy,
Saud Saleh Al Sarhan,
Asma Abdulrahim Alshaiban,
Yasmin Amin,
Hassan Nasser Y Asiri,
Mohammed Faia Asiri,
Hamdullah Baycar,
Ahab Bdaiwi,
Hasan J E H M Beloushi,
Yousef Bennaji,
Mohamed Bin Ali,
Mohd Khairul Anam Bin Che Mentri,
Corrie Jonn Block,
Amirah Bukhari,
Michael Calabria,
Leila Chamankhah,
Rhiannon Conner,
Minlib Dallh,
Zamira Imatovna Dildorbekova,
Fawzy Shaban Elgariani,
Sherry Sayed Gad Elrab ElSayed,
Miles Elwell,
Zoheir Ali Esmail,
Adelbert Finch,
Robert Fuller,
Massimiliano Fusari,
Usman Ghani,
Shayesteh Ghofrani,
Rahim Gholami,
John Goodman,
Emad Hamdeh,
Khalifa Ezzat Abuzeid Hassan,
Omneya Nabil Muhammad Ibrahim,
Amina Inloes,
Tajul Islam,
Jewel Hossain Jalil,
Fouad Jabir Kadhem,
Colleen Marie Keyes,
Majid Montazer Mahdi,
Hamid Reza Maghsoodi,
Abdelghani Mimouni,
Yasmin Hanani Mohd Safian,
Walead Mohammed Mosaad,
Rishad Raffi Motlani,
Assmaa Mohamed Naguib,
Namira Nahouza,
Caroline Neumueller,
Farag I.M. Omar,
Sümeyye Parıldar,
Davide Domenico Pettinato,
Kumail Rajani,
Christopher Pooya Razavian,
Carla E Roland,
Geoffrey Brandon Sage,
Mohammed Sanad,
Zainab Sayed Zahed,
Amir Shaharuddin,
Ghulam Shamas ur Rehman,
Linda Marianne Sijbrand,
Bianka Ágnes Speidl,
Khaled Troudi,
Emine Enise Yakar,
Sümeyra Yakar,
Farah Zeb,