Research Students

Doctoral Students

  • Hebah Alheem, ‘The Zuhdiyyat of Abu’l-‘Atahiya’
  • Marc Czarnuszewicz ‘Connecting the Plateau: Evolving socio-economic networks across the Central Iranian Deserts during the Early Seljuq period’
  • Samuel Huckleberry, ‘The Sacral Realm: Religion, Rulership, and Slavery in the Ottoman and Safavid Realms’.

Recently completed PhDs

  • Jan Hagedorn, ‘Domestic Slavery in the Middle East during the Islamic Middle Period’
  • Alasdair Grant, ‘The Perception of Difference: Cross-Confessional Interfaces in the Later Mediaeval Eastern Roman World’
  • Rami El-Halaseh, ‘The Problem of Multiple qira’at in the Topkapi Qur’an Manuscript’
  • Kenneth Goudie, ‘The Role of Holy War in Islamic and Christian Eschatology’
  • Elisabeth Mincin, ‘Curing the Common Soul: Rethinking Byzantine Heresy Literary Motif of Disease (11th-12th Centuries)’
  • James Carey, ‘The Mechanics of Diplomacy between the East Roman and Sasanian Empires in Late Antiquity (c. 485-630 CE)’