Current Dissertation Writing Scholarship recipients
2025
Seddigheh Kardan
McGill University, Canada
Dissertation title: Shahrastn蘋 and the Ism尪蘋l蘋 Da尪wah: Investigating Shahrastn蘋s Influence By and On the Missionaries (d尪蘋s) and Thoughts of the F廜虹mid and Nizr蘋 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尪li Ismailis. of South Asia, 1787-1921.
2023
Timothy Garrett (Islamic Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles)
Dissertation title: Ma廜ξm al-hud wa-al-i廜ba f蘋 taf廎蘋l Al蘋 al al-廜ζ廎汁ba, an understudied work by the famed Fatimid scholar 廎兀m蘋d al-D蘋n al-Kirmn蘋.
2011
Shatha Almutawa泭(University of Chicago)
Dissertation title:泭The Use of Narrative in Rasail Ikhwan al-Safa: Imagination at the Intersections of Religion, Philosophy and Science
2010
Far癡s Gillon泭(Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris)
Dissertation title:泭Un trait矇 isma矇lien primitif, le Kit璽b al-Kashf (Livre du d矇voilement) attribu矇 au D璽簾 Jafar B
Mans羶r al-Yaman (pr矇sentation, 矇dition, traduction, commentaire)
2009
Maryann Shenoda泭(Harvard University)
Dissertation title:泭Imagining Persecution: Copto-Arabic Opposition to Islamisation and Arabisation in Fatimid Egypt
2008
Jamel A. Velji泭(University of California at Santa Barbara)
Dissertation title:泭Apocalyptic Hermeneutics and the Strengthening of Empire: The Case of the Early Fatimids
2007
Zackery M. Heern泭(University of Utah)
Dissertation title:泭Laying Foundations for Orthodoxy: Transformation of Shi’ism during the Time of Muhammad Baqir Bihbihani
2006
Jennifer Pruitt泭(Harvard University)
Dissertation title:泭A Tale of Two Cities: Locating the Courtly and the Urban in Classical Fatimid Visual Culture (975-1036 CE)
2005
Hasan Ali Khan泭(School of Oriental and African Studies)
Dissertation title:泭Shia浚onnections of the Sufi Heritage of the Indus Valley: With Special Reference to Ismaili Monuments
2004
Aliaa Ezz El浴in浩l Sandouby泭(University of California, Los Angeles)
Dissertation title:泭Remembering theAhl al-Bayt: The Shrines of the Family of the Prophet in Cairo, Damascus and Aleppo
2003
Orkhan Mir-Kasimov泭(Sorbonne University)
Dissertation title:泭A Study of ancient Hurufi texts and manuscripts
2002
Samer Traboulsi泭(Princeton University)
Dissertation title:泭The Tayyibi梆莽鳥硃i梭勳莽疳n Medieval Yemen: A Case Study in the Formation of an Islamic Sect
David Hollenberg泭(University of Pennsylvania)
Dissertation title:泭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泭(McGill University)
Dissertation title:泭The Sphere of Walayah: Ismaili啦硃w勳梭疳n Practice according to al-Muayyad (d. 1078 CE)
