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| Institute Director | |
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| Professor Sajjad Rizvi | Professor of Islamic Intellectual History and Islamic Studies, Institute Director Islamic Philosophy, Intellectual History, Global Philosophy, Quranic Hermeneutics, Decoloniality, Shiʿi Islam |
| Academic Staff | |
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| Professor Dionisius A. Agius FBA | Emeritus Professor of Arabic Studies and Islamic Material Culture: Senior Research Fellow maritime cultural landscapes; dhow studies; Indian Ocean; Medieval Arabic geography and travel accounts; Islamic material culture; the 'Aja'ib (marvels) Arabic literary genre; Arabic philology |
| Dr Mustafa Baig | Lecturer in Islamic Studies Islamic Law, Muslims living in non-Muslim contexts |
| Dr Samer Bakkour | Lecturer in ME Studies and Politics Peace Process and Reconciliation, Arab Israel Conflict, USA Policy in the ME, GCC Politics and War, Arab uprising, Islamic Movements Formation and Strategies, Migration , Internal and External Displacement, Syrian Politics and Economics. |
| Dr Claire Beaugrand | Lecturer in Sociology of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula |
| Dr Billie Jeanne Brownlee | Lecturer in Middle East Politics social media revolution Arab Spring Internet digital technologies social movement revolts uprising displacement migration refugees refugee crisis Syria Lebanon civil society resistance dissent development aid micro-politics authoritarianism |
| Dr Ferah Burgul | Lecturer |
| Professor John P. Cooper | Associate Professor in Maritime Archaeology & Arabic Arabian Gulf; Boat building; Dhow; Egypt; Harbours; Indian Ocean; Islamic Archaeology; Maritime Archaeology; Maritime Cultural Landscapes; Navigation; Nile; Red Sea; Seafaring; Ships. |
| Dr Ahmed Dailami | Lecturer in the History of the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula |
| Emeritus Professor Rasheed El-Enany | Professor Emeritus |
| Dr Giorgia Ferrari | Lecturer |
| Professor William Gallois | Professor of the History of the Mediterranean Islamicate World | Assistant Director IAIS Algeria Tunisia Morocco Maghreb North Africa Libya Mauritania Senegal Art Painting Culture History Decolonial Subaltern Violence Time Global |
| Dr Eleanor Gao | Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics Electoral politics, nondemocracies, good governance, local government, identity (especially tribal) politics, politics of the Arab world |
| Dr Maziyar Ghiabi | Wellcome Lecturer in Medical Humanities & Politics, Director of the Centre for Persian and Iranian Studies medical hunanities; politics and health; medical history; drug studies; ethnography; global south; iran; social theory; trandisciplinary methods; photography and documentary making. |
| Associate Professor Jonathan Githens-Mazer | Associate Professor in Ethno-Politics Theories of nationalism,ethno-symbolist approaches to nationalism, ethnic conflict, national myths, memories and symbols, nationalist mobilisation, Irish nationalism, Algerian nationalism, radicalisation |
| Professor Robert Gleave | Professor of Arabic Studies Hermeneutics and Scriptural Exegesis in Islam, Islamic Law, in particular works of Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh), Violence and its justification in Islamic thought, Shi'ism, in particular Shi'i legal and political theory |
| Professor Adam Hanieh | Professor of Political Economy and Global Development Political Economy; Class and State formation; Race, Labour and Migration; Neoliberalism, Finance, and Development; Oil and Capitalism |
| Dr Allan Hassaniyan | Lecturer in Middle East Politics Kurdish politics, Kurdish nationalism and national movement, civil society and political and cultural activism in Iranian Kurdistan. |
| Professor Timothy Insoll | Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology, Director of Research Islamic Archaeology; Later African Archaeology; Archaeology and materiality of African indigenous religions; Arabian Gulf Archaeology; Archaeology of West African empires; Mali; Ghana; Songhay; Red Sea; Ethiopia; Bahrain; India; Indian Ocean trade networks; Ethnoarchaeology of African shrines and medicine practices; Representation of Islam in Museums |
| Dr István Kristó-Nagy | Senior Lecturer in Arabic and Islamic Studies Abbasid culture; Early and classical Islamic civilisation; social and intellectual history; art history; literature; political thought, Zandaqa (Manicheism and other forms of dualist thought); the kuttāb (administrative elite); comparative and interdisciplinary studies. |
| Mr Ali Mossadegh | Lecturer in Persian Language |
| Dr Nadia Naser-Najjab | Lecturer in Palestine Studies Palestine Israel Setter Colonialism Resistance Decolonisation Civil Society Solidarity Neoliberalism reconciliation |
| Dr Katie Natanel | Lecturer in Gender Studies feminist theory; political violence; decolonisation; Palestine/Israel; affect and embodiment; temporality; political mobilisation and participation; ecology; creative pedagogies; performative research methodologies |
| Emeritus Professor Ian Netton | Professor Emeritus Islamic theology and philosophy, Anthropology of religion (especially ritual), Sufism, mediaeval Arab travellers, Arabic and Islamic bibliography, comparative textuality and semiotics, comparative religion |
| Emeritus Professor Tim Niblock | Professor Emeritus |
| Ms Abla Oudeh Mahmoud | Lecturer |
| Professor Ilan Pappé | Professor of History, Director of the European Centre for Palestine Studies. |
| Professor Christina Phillips | Associate Professor of Arabic and Comparative Literature Arabic and Arab anglophone writing, comparative literature, translation studies, postcolonial theory. |
| Dr Ross Porter | Lecturer Anthropology of time, ethics, the state, revolution, freedom |
| Safaa Radoan | Associate Lecturer |
| Fatima Rawan | Senior Lecturer in Arabic Language |
| Professor Christine Robins (formerly Allison) | Ibrahim Ahmed Professor of Kurdish Studies, Director of Education. Kurds, Kurdish, Kurmanji, memory, religous minority, Yezidi, Mandaean, narrative responsibility, speech genre, orality, literacy, linguistic anthropology, endangered religion, extinction |
| Dr Rama Sahtout | Lecturer in Arabic |
| Dr Clemence Scalbert-Yucel | Senior Lecturer in Ethnopolitics Kurdish literature, cultural production, heritage, rurality and ecology, Turkey, Kurdistan |
| Dr Emily Selove | Senior Lecturer of Medieval Arabic Language and Literature Medieval Arabic literature, magic, sympotic literature, banquet literature, wine, sexuality, reception |
| Professor Gareth Stansfield | Al-Qasimi Professor of Arab Gulf Studies, Professor of Middle East Politics and Interim Pro-Vice-Chancellor, College of Social Sciences and International Studies |
| Professor Lise Storm | Associate Professor of Party Politics Democracy; democratization; authoritarianism; political parties; party systems; democracy assistance; aid; development; SDG16. |
| Dr Suha Taji-Farouki | Senior Lecturer in Modern Islam modern and contemporary Islam and Islamic thought, sufism, Muslim devotionalism, Muslim prayer, Ibn 'Arabi in the modern world, Islamic movements, political Islam, Islamic radicalism, Qur'anic studies, interfaith relations |
| Associate Professor Marc Valeri | Associate Professor in Political Economy of the Middle East, Director - Centre for Gulf Studies Gulf monarchies; political economy; political sociology; comparative (Middle East) politics; authoritarianism; state-business relations. |
| Research Staff | |
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| Dr Belal Alabbas | British Academy Newton International Fellow |
| Dr Omar Anchassi | Research Fellow |
| Dr Farangis Ghaderi | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Dr Nadia Khalaf | Postdoctoral Research Fellow African heritage; satellite remote sensing; Geographical Information Systems (GIS); cultural heritage management, climate change |
| Dr Luca Patrizi | Postdoctoral Research Fellow |
| Dr Davide Pettinato | Research Fellow Islam, Muslims and the environment / climate change / sustainable development; Muslim organisations / NGOs / charities; Islam in the UK / British Muslims |
| Dr Raha Rafii | Research Fellow Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi’ite Islam |
| Dr Kumail Rajani | Research Fellow Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shiʿite Islam Shiʿi Studies Arab and Islamic Studies South Asian Studies |
| Professional Services Staff | |
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| Tom Allen | SSIS Student Recruitment and Admissions Coordinator |
| Melissa Barrett | Widening Participation Coordinator |
| Kate Blackmore | Pathways to Law & Outreach Officer |
| Sarah Firman | EA Gareth Stansfield - HoD, PGR Support, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies |
| Leo Leandro Rodrigues | Project and Web Development Manager (MESnet) |
| Eleanor Monger | Student Recruitment and Admissions Manager |
| Emma Reeve | Marketing, Recruitment, Communications & Global Business Partner |
| Sarah Roberts | Administrator |
| Jane Tanner | Web Officer (Digital Team) |
| Sarah Wood | Research Support and Website lead IAIS, Project Administrator and PA to Professor Rob Gleave |
| Honorary Professors | |
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| Mr Martin Angle | Honorary Professor |
| Professor Matteo Legrenzi | Honorary Professor |
| Honorary Research Fellows | |
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| Dr Saud Al-Sarhan | Honorary Senior Research Fellow |
| Mr Paul Auchterlonie | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Li Bingzhong | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Uri Davis | Honorary Research Fellows |
| Dr Amin Ehteshami | Research Fellow Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi’ite Islam |
| Dr Elham Fakhro | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Paul Gledhill | Research Fellow in Islamic Studies |
| Dr Manami Goto | Honorary Research Fellow Gulf Studies, Material Culture, Dress, Ethnography |
| Dr Wai-Yip Ho | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Sami Miaari | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr James Onley | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Francis Owtram | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Sophie Richter-Devroe | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Endika Rodriguez Martin | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Seevan Saeed | Honorary research fellow |
| Dr Muhanad Seloom | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Dr Norbert Weismann | Honorary Research Fellow |
| Mr Cameron Zargar | Honorary Research Fellow Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi’ite Islam |
| PhD students | ||
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| Yunus Abakay | Centre for Kurdish Studies | PhD Student |
| Faris Abdel-Hadi | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Mohammad Affan | PhD Student | |
| Usama Al-Atar | PhD Student | |
| Maryam Al-Kuwari | Centre for Gulf Studies | PhD Student |
| Roba Al-Salibi | PhD Student | |
| Bassam Albinmohamed | PhD Student | |
| Ahmed Aldhubayi | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Ahmad Alfaraj | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Mefreh Alharshani | PhD Student | |
| Mahdi Ali Poor Kalaei | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Abdullah Almatar | PhD Student | |
| Hamzah Almustafa | PhD Student | |
| Tariq Alsabahi | Centre for Gulf Studies | PhD Student |
| Hawar Ameen | PhD Student | |
| Francesco Amoruso | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Nathan Anderson | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Hassan Nasser Y Asiri | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Mohammed Asiri | PhD Student | |
| Lucy Barkley | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Hamdullah Baycar | PhD Student | |
| Cordelia Begbie | PhD Student | |
| Tobias Borck | PhD Student | |
| Mark Bracher | PhD Student | |
| Amirah Bukhari | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Christopher Burnham | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Nihat Cakir | PhD Student | |
| Christopher Cox | PhD Student | |
| Maria Della Porta Rodiani | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Nur Efeoglu | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Ali Fares | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Inés Fernández Moral | PhD Student | |
| Adelbert Finch | PhD Student | |
| Robert Fuller | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Alessandro Ghidoni | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Rahim Gholami | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| John Goodman | PhD Student | |
| Alexander Hainy-Khaleeli | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Ayat Hamdan | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Tarek Hamoud | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Oliver Hayakawa | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Adam Hogan | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Areej Jafari | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Hayder Jafari | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Olivia Jones | Centre for Gulf Studies | PhD Student |
| Gizem Kahraman Aksoy | Centre for Gulf Studies and Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Isobel Kingscott | PhD Student | |
| Venla Koivuluhta | PhD Student | |
| Charlotte Littlewood | PhD Student | |
| Colter Louwerse | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Hamid Maghsoodi | PhD Student | |
| Jihad Mashamoun | PhD Student | |
| Youssef Masrieh | PhD Student | |
| Mohamed Matar | Centre for Gulf Studies | PhD Student |
| Asmaa Meftah | PhD Student | |
| Hatice Kubra Memis | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Majid Montazer Mahdi | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Vito Morisco | PhD Student | |
| Mohsen RezaNajafi | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Baris Oktem | PhD Student | |
| Hannah Parsons | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Maria Gloria Polimeno | PhD Student | |
| Gabriel Polley | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Mihraban Raouf Rasoul | PhD Student | |
| Mohammad-Payam Saadat Sarmadi | Centre for the Study of Islam | PhD Student |
| Schluwa Sama | PhD Student | |
| Mohammed Sanad | PhD Student | |
| Kristine Sheets | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Serdar Sümer | PhD Student | |
| Nicholas Tait | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Kanwal Abdulhameed | Centre for Gulf Studies | PhD Student |
| Awet Teklehimanot Araya | Centre for Islamic Archaeology | PhD Student |
| Amira Toureche | PhD Student | |
| Silvia Truini | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Hadi Wahab | PhD Student | |
| Benjamin White | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |
| Richard Willson | PhD Student | |
| Joe Worthington | PhD Student | |
| Shijie Xu | European Centre for Palestine Studies | PhD Student |