Doctoral Scholarship Programme

The Institute awards doctoral scholarships each year to suitable candidates. Preference is given to those applicants who have completed the Institute’s three year Graduate Programme in Islamic Studies and Humanities and who are interested in pursuing careers in Islamic studies.

More specifically, the doctoral scholarship programme aims to encourage the study of certain neglected areas of Islamic and related studies, such as Qur’anic studies and to foster a community of scholars in the areas of interest to the IIS.

This award is made in recognition of academic distinction and therefore particular attention is given to the applicants’ past academic record and future potential.

Scholarships are granted for the entire duration of the degree course for which a student has applied, normally a three-year period. However, the annual renewal of the award is conditional upon the student’s satisfactory academic progress, which is monitored closely. Information and application form for the next award cycle (PhD Scholarship 2011) will be available on this page in January 2011.

In recent years, doctoral scholarships have been awarded to the following students:

2010

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Laila Kadiwal, PhD in the Department of Sociology, University of Sussex
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Sorbon Mavlonazarov, PhD in the Department of Anthropology, Durham University

2009

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Zamira Dildorbekova, PhD from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter
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Shayesteh Ghofrani, PhD from the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

2008

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Sultanbek Axsakolov, PhD in the Department of History at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
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Shaftolu Gulamadov, PhD in the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
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Amier Saidulla, PhD in the Department of Social Anthropology of the Graduate School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh.


2007

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Zouhal Avzalshoeva, PhD in the Department of Law at the Sussex University
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Rafiq Rahim Ajani, PhD in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter
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Sharaf Oshurbekov, PhD in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of York
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Sabrina Datoo, PhD in the Department of History at the University of Chicago
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Aly Kassam-Remtulla, DPhil in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford.

2006

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Shiraz Hajani, PhD in the Department of South Asian Languages & Civilisations at the University of Chicago
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Wafi Momin, PhD in the Department of Islamic Studies & Anthropology at the University of Chicago

2005

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Zoulfia Achourmomadova, DPhil in the Department of Educational Studies at The University of Oxford
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Jamil Kassam, PhD in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The University of Chicago.
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Nourmamdcho Nourmamdchoev, DPhil in the Department of Islamic Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

2004

* Maryam Rezaee, DPhil in the Politics Department at the University of York.
* Karim Gillani, PhD in the Department of Music and Religious Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada.
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Otambek Mastibekov, DPhil in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

2003

* Arif A. Jamal, PhD in the Faculty of Laws at University College London. As part of this work, Arif has been invited to spend the 2003-2004 academic year as a Visiting Researcher with the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.
* Marodsilton Mubarokshoeva, DPhil at the the University of Oxford’s Department of Educational Studies.
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Nacim Pak, PhD in the Anthropology of Media from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

2002

* Yahia Baiza, DPhil in Educational Studies at the University of Oxford.
* Abdulmamad Iloliev, PhD in Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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Vafo Navkarov, PhD in Philosophy at the University College London.

2001

* Amin Mahdavi, PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science at the University of Edinburgh.
* Gurdofarid Miskinzoda, PhD in Islamic Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
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Saeed Zaydabadi Nejad, PhD in Social Anthropology and Media Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

2000

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Miriam Ali de Unzaga, DPhil in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.

1999

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Omar Alí-de-Unzaga, PhD in Islamic Literature at the Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge.

1998

* Laila Halani, DPhil in Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.
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Fahmida Suleman, DPhil in Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford.

1997

* Zulfikar Hirji, DPhil in Anthropology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford.