PhD graduates in IMES

Browse a directory of PhD thesis titles on topics in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies by the year and name of University of Edinburgh graduates from 1921 onwards.

1921-1980

Prior to the establishment of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES) in 1980, students at the University of Edinburgh working on topics concerning Islam and the Middle East could be formally enrolled in one of a number of departments and faculties (chiefly Arts, Divinity and Law). In this section, we list relevant PhDs from the Faculty of Arts (unless otherwise noted) over the period 1921-1980.

1921-1940

Year	Name	Thesis title
1924	S. Neale Alter	Studies in Bahaism
1927	James Robertson Buchanan	Muhammad’s Idea of the last judgement and its sources
Cranston Earl Goddard	The origin of the Semitic alphabet
1929	Arthur Jeffrey, MA, BD (Melbourne)	The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur’an [Divinity]

1941-1950

Year	Name	Thesis title
1944	William Montgomery Watt, MA (Edin), B.Litt (Oxon)	Free will and predestination in early Islam
1949	J. Christy Wilson, BA (Princeton)	Muhammad’s Prophetic Office as Portrayed in the Qur’an [Divinity]
Majid Fakhry, MA (Beirut)	Causality in Al-Ghazali, Averroes and Aquinas
1950	Mohamed El-Alaie Ali, BA (Fouad)	The Influence of the Egyptian Environment on the Arabic Language, with special reference to the ‘Diwan’ of Bayram At-Tonosi, Part 2

1951-1960

Year	Name	Thesis title
1951	Pierre Jacques Elie Cachia, BA (AUC)	Taha Husayn, His Place in the Egyptian Literary Renaissance
Yousef Salah Eldin Namek, MCom (Fouad)	The Social and Economic Aspects of the Problem of Population in Egypt
1952	Sidney Fitzgerald Collins, BA (McMaster) MA	‘Moslem’ and ‘Negro’ Groupings in Tyneside: A comparative study of Social Integration in terms of Intra-group and Inter-group Relations
Abdel-Razek Mohamed Hassan, BCom (Fouad)	A Comparative Study of Income Taxes in Britain, Egypt and France
1953	Abdin Mahmoud Dajani BA (Beirut)	The polemics of the Qur’an against Jews and Christians [Divinity]
James Grant Suttie Stewart Thomson, MA, BD (Edin) BA (Oxford)	The Doctrine of Man in the Qur’an [Divinity]
Mohamed Abdel Rahman Bisar, PhD (Al Azhar)	Al-Juwayni and Al-Ghazali as Theologians with special reference to Al-Irshad and Al-Iqtisad
El-Kamil El-Sayed Mohammed El-Bagir, BA (Cairo)	Al-Ghazali’s Philosophy of Education with special reference to Al Ihya Book 1
Sylvia Gourgi Kedourie (nee Haim)	The Ideas of a Precursor, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi (1849-1902), in Relation to the trend of Muslin-Arab Political Thought
1954	Mohamed Fathalla El-Khatib, BCom (Cairo)	The Working of Parliamentary Institutions in Egypt, 1924-1952 [Political Science]
Samha Amin Al Kholy, Mus. Bac (Cairo)	The Function of Music in Islamic Culture (in the period up to 1100 AD)
Charles Pennyman Worsley, MA	The Composition of Ibn al-Athir’s History of the Crusades, AH 490-516 − AD 1097-1122
1956	Mohamed Gamal Eldin Eleish, BCom (Cairo)	A Comparative Study of Housing Methods and Policy in Britain and Egypt since the First World War
1957	Norman Alexander Daniel, BA (Oxon)	The Concept of Islam in Latin Writers of the Middle Ages from the beginning of the twelfth century to the middle of the fourteenth
Daoud Abdo Daoud, BA (Alex)	Christian architecture and architectural decoration in Egypt up to the Arab Conquest
Emel Dogramaci, Lic English Lit (Ankara)	George Eliot and emancipation: a Turkish view
1958	Mohiuddin Mohammed Ibrahim Momin, MA (Bombay)	The Mughal contribution to Persian epistolography (from Babur 1526 to Shah Jahan 1658)
Najah Attar, L. es L (Syria)	Abu’l-Atahiya: his life and his poetry
1959	Saleh Hadi El-Shamma, MA (Cairo)	The ethical system underlying the Qur’an
Hassan Mahmoud Mohamed Ibrahim, BCom (Cairo)	The development and performance of the Egyptian income tax system
1960	Fawkia Hussein Mahmoud, BA (Cairo)	Al-Juwayni and his doctrine of the origination of the world

1961-1970

Year	Name	Thesis title
1961	Clifford Edmund Bosworth, MA (Oxon), MA (Edin)	The transition from Ghaznavid to Seljuq rule in the Islamic East
1962	Harold Spencer	A study of the dependence upon al-Ghazali’s Ihya of the Introduction and the first two ‘pillars’ of the Persian Kimiya-i-Sa’adat
1964	Ali Ahmed Suliman, BSc (Khartoum)	Income stabilization policies for the cotton producers in the Sudan [Social Sciences]
1965	Ghazi Rajab Mohammad BA (Baghdad)	The minaret and its relationship to the mosque in early Islam
Avril Mary Makhlouf, BA (Lond)	The doctrine of the Trinity in certain early Arabic Christian writers, with special reference to the influence of the Islamic environment
1966	Muhammad Mizanur Rahman	Materials in the works of Al-Fārābī and Ibn-Sīnā on which the metaphysical section of Al-Ghazālī's Maqāṣid is based
Saadoun Naji Al-Kishtaini, Lic-en-Droit (Baghdad)	A comparative study on the Insurance Laws in Iraq [Law]
Isa Salman Hamid BA (Baghdad)	The Mesopotamian School of Painting
1967	Moufid Mohammad Nouri, BA (Baghdad)	The scholars of Nishapur, 700-1250
Robert Charles Stade, BA, BD (Concordia Sem.)	Al-Ghazali’s Al-Maqsad Al-Asna and the concept of God in Islam [Arabic]
1968	Ghassan Rayih Atiyyah BA (Beirut)	Iraq: a study in political consciousness, 1908-1921 [Social Science]
Tahir Muzzafar Al-Amid MA (Baghdad)	The Abbasid Architecture of Samarra in the reign of both al-Mutasim and al-Mutawakkil
1969	Khaja Gholam Aghar BA (Calcutta), MA, LLB (Dacca)	The Role of the nobility during early Turkish rule in India 1210-1266
Faiza Fouad El-Shafie BA (Ain Shams)	The Gazeliyat of the 17^th Century Ottoman poet, Nabi
Nasir Elseed Mohamed, MA (Khartoum)	Modern Education in the Sudan 1898-1965
Mine Özoğul, BA (Ankara)	The Divan of the 15^th century Ottoman poet Mesīhī
1970	Abdur Rauf Khan, MA (Punjab, Lahore)	The doctrine of creation in Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd with special reference to the two Tahafuts and Al-Maqasid’
Elhiber Yousif Nur Eldaym, BA (Khartoum)	The charge of Shi’ism against at-Tabari with special reference to his Tafsir
Hasan Muhammad al-Fatih Qariballah, BA (Cairo) MA (Khartoum)	The influence of al-Ghazali upon Islamic jurisprudence and philosophy with special reference to the period 1100-1400AD
Alford Tolbert Welch, BA (Oklahoma) BD (Southern Bapt. Theol. Sem.) MA (Hartford)	The Pneumatology of the Qur’an: a study of Phenomenology
Amin Mekki Medani, LLB (Khartoum), LLM (Lond.)	The Sudan Law of Homicide with comparative reference to Scots and English Law [Law]
Joseph Peter Kenny, MA (Aquinas)	Muslim Theology as presented by M. b Yusuf as-Sanusi – especially in his al-‘Aqida al-Wusta

1971-1980

Year	Name	Thesis title
1971	Ian Joseph Cairns, MA, BD (NZ)	The role of theophany in the formation of scripture, in early Israel and in the Qur’an [Divinity]
Muhammad Osman Abusaq, BA (Khartoum), MA (Abderd.)	The politics of the Mihna under al-Ma’mun and his successor [Divinity]
Aziz Fahim, BA (Cairo), Th. M (Louisville Theol. Sem.)	Righteousness in the Epistle to the Romans and the Qur’an: a comparative study [Divinity]
1972	Bahjat Kamil Al-Tikriti BA (Baghdad), MA (McGill)	The struggle for power in the ‘Abbasid Caliphate between 247/861 and 256/870
Mehmet Aydin	The term Sa‘ada in the selected works of al-Farabi and al-Ghazali
Mahassin Abdel Gadir Hag El-Safi BA (Khartoum), M. Litt	The Somalis in the East Africa Protectorate and Kenya Colony: 1895-1963
Aziz Abdulmohammed Esmail, BA (Makere)	Satpanth Ismailism and modern changes within it, with special reference to East Africa
Mustafa Mohammed Abdel-Majid, BA (AUB)	The role of English education in the Sudan
Abdallah Salih Al-Uthaymin, BA (Riyadh)	Muhammad Ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab: the man and his works
Bankole Ajibabi Omotoso BA (Ibadan)	Ali Ahmad Ba-Kathir, a contemporary conservative Arab writer – an appraisal of his main plays and novels
1973	Adil Najim Abbu, MA (Baghdad)	The Ayyubid domed buildings of Syria, 3 vols
Muhammad Abul Quasem, MA (Dacca)	Al-Ghazali’s ethics
Muhammad Al-Aroosi Abdul Qadir BA (Mecca), M. Litt	The reception and development of Malikite legal doctrine in the western Islamic world
‘Abdallah Hamid Al-Hiyed, BA (Riyadh)	Relations between the Yaman and South Arabia during the Zaydi Imamate of Al al-Qasim 1626-1732
Naji Hasan Hadi MA (Baghdad)	The role of the Arab tribes in the East during the period of the Umayyads (40/660-132/749)
John Duncan Haldane, MA	A Hariri manuscript and its relevance to Mamluk painting
Ahmet Ugur	The reign of Sultan Selim I in the light of the Selim-name literature
Ali Ugur	The Ottoman ulema in the mid-17^th century: an analysis of the Vaka’i’ü ‘l-Fuzala of Mehmed Seyhi Ef.
1974	Abd al-Rahman Mahmud Al-Gailani, BA (Baghdad)	The origins of Islamic art and the role of China
Farouq Omar Abdallah Al-Omar BA, (Kuwait)	The doctrines of the Maturidite school with special reference to As-Sawad al-A’zam of al-Hakim as-Samarqandi
Colin Davies, MA	British oil policy in the Middle East, 1919-1932
Syed Muhammad Hasan-Uz-Zaman, MA (Agra) MA (Karachi)	The economic functions of the Islamic state (to the end of the Umayyad period)
Imtiaz Ahmad, MA, LLB (Allahabad)	The significance of Sunna and Hadith and their early documentation
1975	Tariq Jawad Al-Janabi, BA (Baghdad)	Studies in medieval Iraqi architecture
Abdallah Sulayman Al-Jarbu, BA (King Abdul-Aziz)	Martial poetry in Mecca and Medina in thelate pre-Islamic and early Islamic periods
Ali Ahmed Mohamed Babiker BA (Omdurman) MLitt	The place of reason among the ‘roots’ of Islamic jurisprudence
Michael Cavanagh, BA (Leeds)	On the structure of a formal grammar of literary Arabic
James Frederick Gould, BA (Toronto) MA (AUC)	A study of Two Rivalries in the UMMA (1-11AH) and their implication for the interpretation of the Sira literature
Besheer Mohammad Osman Hageltom, BA (Khartoum) MA (Sheffield)	Moral education in Islamic society as ideally conceived
1976	Ahmed Mohamed Ahmad El-Galli, BA (Omdurman), M. Litt	The place of reason in the theology of al-Maturidi and al-Ash’ari
Mehmet Ipsirli	Mustafa Selaniki’s History of the Ottomans
Mohamed Ali Mohamed Shukri BA (Ceylon)	The mystical doctrine of the Abu Talib al-Makki as found in his book Qut al-qulub
Mohmed Osman Salih, BA (Omdurman) MLitt	Mahdism in Islam up to 260AH/874 AD and its relation to Zoroastrianism, Jewish and Christian Messianism
Abdullahi Ahmed El-Naiem, LLB (Khartoum)	Basic issues of Sudanese pre-trial criminal procedure in the light of English, Scottish and American practice [Law]
Muhammad Jawad Hasan Hashim Al-Musawi, BA (Baghdad), MA (Alex)	The philosophical problem of the relation between reason and revelation in the thought of the Qadi ‘Abd al-Jabbar
James Norman Gehlhar, BA (Wisconsin)	A stylistic analysis of the development of literary Persian and Turkish as seen in versions of Kalila wa-Dimna, The Fables of Bidpay
1977	Anita Emilia Fedinand Damiani, MA (AUB)	British travel attitudes to the Near East in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Ismail Erol Erünsal	The life and works of Taci-zade Ca’fer Çelebi with a critical edition of his Divan
Mahmud Ramyar, PhD (Teheran)	Shaykh Tusi, The life and works of a Shi’ite leader
Joseph Givony, BA (Baghdad)	The Murji’a and the theological school of Abu Hanifa, A historical and ideological study
Abd ar-Rahman Mahmud Hafiz, BA (Shari’a College, Mecca)	The Life of az-Zuhri and his scholarship in Quranic sciences and tradition (Hadith and Sunna)
Lutfi Ibrahim, BA (Baghdad)	The theological questions at issue between az-Zamakhshari and al-Baydawi with special reference to al-Kashshaf and Anwar at-Tanzil
Dona Sue Straley, BA (Ohio State)	Perspective and method in early Islamic historiography: a study of al-Tabari’s Ta’rikh al-Rusul wa’l-Muluk
Khalil Ibrahim Mohammed Al-Kassab, BSc (Baghdad)	A comparative history of industrial relations in Iraq, Egypt and Syria [Social Sciences]
1978	Muhammad Abd ar-Rahman Al-Hadlac BA (Riyadh), M Litt	Diya ad-Din Ibn Al-Athir and his contribution to the science of rhetoric
M’Hammad M’Hammad Benaboud, BA (USIU)	A political and social history of Seville under Banu ‘Abbad
Abd al-Rahim Ali Mohamed Ibrahim BA (Khartoum)	The literary structure of the Quranic verse (ĀYA)
Zahida Said Al-Salihi, BA (Baghdad)	The career of ‘Abdallah Ibn az-Zubayr with special reference to the period 61-73/680-692
1979	Yousif Omer Babiker, BA (Cairo)	The Al-Fajr movement and its place in modern Sudanese literature
William Elliott, BA (Nebraska) MA (Creighton)	The career of Ibn Qasi as religious teacher and political revolutionary in 12^th century Islamic Spain
Christopher Gaspare Ferrard, MA (Edin) MA (Wisconsin)	Ottoman contributions to Islamic rhetoric
Carole Hillenbrand, MA (Oxon), MA (Cantab.)	The history of the Jazira 1100-1150: the contribution of Ibn al-Azraq al-Fariqi
Pita Heseltine, MA	Romanticism and symbolism in the poetry of Badr Shakir As-Sayyab
Jassim Muhawi Hussain, BA (Basrah), MA (Baghdad)	The historical background of the occultation of the twelfth Sh’ite Imam
Christine Mary Woodhead, BA (Oxon)	The Sehname-i-Humayun of Ta’liki-zade Mehmed Effendi on the Ottoman campaign into Hungary in 1593-4: a critical edition of the text with introduction and annotation.
1980	Salsal Muhammad Al-Ani, BA (Baghdad)	The early representation of the Prophet Muhammad with special reference to the mi’raj scenes
Muhammad Salih Al-Tasan, BA (Riyadh)	A critical edition of Al-Araj al-Miski fi t-Tarikh al-Makki, by ‘Ali b. ‘Abd al-Qadir at-Tabari, together with an introduction to the work and its author
Yasin Ceylan	Theology and Tafsir in the major works of Fakhr al-Din al-Razi
Nezam-Mafi Ettehadieh, MA (Mansoureh)	Origin and development of political parties in Persia 1906-1911
Mohammad Waris Hassan-Naqavi	A critical study of Nahj al-Balagha
Muhammad Siddique Khalid Alavi, BA, MA (Punjab, Lahore)	Al-Lari’s commentary to the Arba’un an-Nawawi: a critical edition with introduction
Iraj Tanhatan Nasseri, BA (Teheran)	The Muhajir
Ali Asghar Halabi, BA (Teheran)	The development of humour and satire in Persia with special reference to ‘Ubaid Zakani’
Ahmad al-Tayyib Muhammad al-Fatih Qariballah, BA (Omdurman)	The Washy al-Hulal of Abu-‘l-‘Abbas al-Labli: a critical edition with an introductory study
Umsalama Mohammed Salih, MSc (Khartoum)	The political thought of Ibn Taymiyya

1981-present day

Since the establishment of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES) at the University of Edinburgh in 1980, we have been graduating PhD students across a wide variety of topics. In this section, we list all IMES PhDs over the period 1981-2022.

1981-1990

Year	Name	Thesis title
1981	Ahmad Mubarak Al-Baghdadi, BA (Kuwait), MA (Clark, Mass.)	The Political Thought of Abu al-Hasan al-Mawardi
Nur al-Din Aliyu, BA (Ahmadu Bello), MSc (Wisconsin)	Ibn Taymiyya’s attitude towards Sufism and his critique of Ibn al-‘Arabi’s mystical philosophy
Abdulmuneim Muhammad Al-Hasan Al-Karouri, BA (Cairo), MA (Khartoum)	The Classical Arabic verb inflection: a WP-grammar with an introductory phonemic investigation
Azmi Taha Al-Sayyed Ahmad, BA (Damascus), MA (Kuwait)	Al-Ghazali’s views on logic
Shaukat Mahmood, BA, MA (Punjab, Lahore), MSc (H-W)	Islamic Inscriptions in Pakistani architecture to 1707
Mohammed Akram Sa’adeddin, BA (Damascus)	An analytical phonetic study of three areas of Al-Farahidiy’s legacy
Muhammad Akhtar Saeed Siddiqui, BA, MA (Karachi), MA (Punjab, Lahore)	A study of the evolution of ijtihad (legal reasoning) in the development of the zakat law during the first century AH
Mohammad Karim Youssef-Jamali, BA (Tabriz)	The life and personality of Shah Isma’il (1487-1524)
Abdul-Rahman Salih Abdullah, BA (AUB), MA (Columbia)	Educational Theory: A Qur’ānic Outlook
Sukru Selim Has, BA (Ankara)	A Study of Ibrahim Al-Halabi with special reference to the Multaqa
Necati Ozturk, BA (Ankara)	Islamic orthodoxy among the Ottomans in the seventeenth century with special reference to the Qadi-zade Movement
Dhia Mohammed Siddeek, BA (Al-Mustansiriya)	Romanticism and realism: a study of the novels of Yusuf as-Siba’i
Adnan Mohammad Wazzan, BA (King Abdul Aziz)	Realism in Arnold Bennett and Najib Mahfuz: a comparative study in the Arabic and the English novel
Azar Gholizadeh-Sarabi, BA (Tabriz)	The status of women in an Azarbayjani village (Iran) with special reference to carpet manufacture
Kamel Khalil Zaghmoot, BA (Damascus)	A critical edition of some early works of Tradition, together with an introduction and analysis of these works
1982	Jasim Sagbain Ali, MA (Baghdad)	The Christians of the Jazira 17-132 AH/ 638-750 AD
Ahmad Taheri-Iraqi, BA (Teheran)	Zandaqa in the early Abbasid period with special reference to the poetry.
Parinaz Shahnavaz, BA, MA, MSc (Teheran)	The struggle for supremacy between the Zands and the Qajars, 1193-1209 AH/ 1779-1794 AD: a society in transition
Abdel-Majid Ibrahim Mahmoud Thalji, BA, MA (AUB)	Structure and function in Arabic
Abdullatif Alwan Jawad Al-Jumaily, BA (Baghdad), MSc	‘A developmental study of the acquisition of certain syntactic features of English by Arabic-speaking learners’
Robert Leslie Wells, BA (Lond.)	Jalal Ale Ahmad, writer and political activist
1983	Husain Abdulla Dhawwad Al-Dhawwad, BA (King Abdul Aziz)	The An-Nukat Al-Hisan Fi Sharh Ghayat Al-Ihsan of Aby Hayyan An-Nahwi Al-Andalusi: a critical edition with an introductory study
Mesfer Raddah Abd al-Rahman Al-Harithi, BA (King Abdul Aziz)	The al-Fara’id al-Wafiyya bi-Dhikr ma lam Tahwihi al-Alfiyya of al-Mansuri – a critical edition with a comparative study between it and the Alfiyya of Ibn Malik
Muhammad Al-Mahdi Muhammad, BA (Cairo)	An inquiry into the Utilitarian tendencies in the ethics of Miskawayh
David Charles Nicolle, Bed, MA (Lond)	The military technology of classical Islam
Bernard O’Kane, LLB (Queens, Belfast)	Timurid architecture in Khurasan
Mohammad Suleman, BA, MA (Punjab, Lahore)	The development of military intelligence in the career of the Prophet at Medina
Marzouk Sunitan Ibn Tenbak, BA (Riyadh)	Tribalism and political change as reflected in the poetry of the early Umayyad period
Mahmoud Abdullahzadeh, BSc (Iran)	Iran’s foreign policy from the inception of the Second World War to the Azerbayijan Crisis
Ahmad Ibrahim Al-Fagih	The Libyan Short Story
Widad Juma Laradi, BA (Libya), MA (Leeds)	Pharyngealization in Libyan (Tripoli) Arabic; an instrumental study
Arssan Mussa Rashid, BA (Baghdad)	The role of the Shurta in Early Islam
1984	Fadl Ammar Saleh al-Ammary ad-Dousary, BA (Riyadh)	The Poetry of Taghlib
Abd al-Rafi'i Oyewumi Omotosho, LLB (Medina)	The Problem of al-Amr in Usul al-Fiqh
Philip Charles Sadgrove, MA	The development of the Arabic periodical press and its role in the literary life of Egypt (1798-1882)
Sayed Hassan Zayed, BA, BA (Cairo)	A pragmatic approach to Modality and the Modals: with application to literary Arabic
Mardini, Souran	Fundamental religio-political concepts in the sources of Islam
1985	Qibla Ayaz, BA, MA (Peshawar)	An unexploited source for the history of the Saljuqs: a translation of and critical commentary on the Akhbar al-dawlat al-Saljuqiyya
Fouzia Abdulaziz Mohsen Bukshaisha, BEd (Qatar)	An experimental phonetic study of some aspects of Qatari Arabic
Suad Sid Ahmed Ali, BA, MA (Khartoum)	Al-Suhayli’s contribution to the Sira
Cheng Hsiang Hsu, BA (Nat. Chengchi, Taiwan)	The first thirty years of Arabic printing in Egypt 1238-1267 (1822-1851): a bibliographical study with a checklist by title of Arabic printed works
Hussein Yousif Hussein, BA (Mosul)	The Historical Novels of Walter Scott and Najib Mahfuz: a comparative study
Durreshahwar Sayed, BA, MA (Karachi), MA (Sussex)	The Poetry of Shah ‘Abd al-Latif: its Indian and Persian aspects
1986	Darwish Ghuloom Hussein Yousef Al-Amadidhi, Bed (Qatar)	Lexical and sociolinguistic variation in Qatari Arabic
Zahida Chebchoub	A sociolingustic study of the use of Arabic and French in Algiers
Abdullah Abd al-Aziz Drees, BA, MA (Riyadh)	A critical edition of Tarikh al-Madinah by Al-Shaykh Qutb al-Din
Osman Mohammad Eid, BA, MA (AUB)	The Khalwa as an Islamic educational institution in the Sudan
Abdullah Alwi Haji Hassan, BA (al-Azhar)	Sales and contracts in early Islamic commercial law
Mohammad Farid Gamal El-Din Elshayyal, BSc, BA (Alex.), MA (Toronto)	A critical edition of Volume II of Tarikh al-Duwal wa’l-Muluk by Muhammad b. ‘Abd al-Rahim b. ‘Ali ibn al-Furat
Abdul Rashid, MA (Bahalwalpur), Bed, MA (Punjab, Lahore)	A translation and analysis of ‘Abd al-Jabbar’s critique of Trinitarian and Christological Doctrines.
1987	Haifa Abdulla Fadel Al-Buanain, BA, BEd (Qatar), MSc	Second language acquisition of Arabic: the development of negation and interrogation among learners in the UK
Ghurmallah Abdallah Jali, BA (Riyadh), MA (Leeds)	English proficiency in the Saudi Air Academy: validating a new test battery
1988	Iraj Emami, BA (Tehran)	The evolution of traditional theatre and the development of modern theatre in Iran
Muhammad Bin Arifin, BA (Malaysia) (University of Edinburgh, 1988)	The principles of ‘Umum and Takhsis in Islamic jurisprudence.
Arzina El-Nasir Lalani, BA (Karachi)	The role of Imam Muhammad Al-Baqir in early Islam
Abd al-Rahman bin Awang, (University of Edinburgh, 1988), BA (Cairo), LLM (Temple)	The status of the dhimmi in Islamic law
Mahmudu Naina Markiar Kamil Asad, BA (Medina), M. Litt	Some aspects of the political and commercial history of the Muslims of Sri Lanka with special reference to the British Period
Abdul Fatah Bin Haji Khalid	Teaching translation at the undergraduate level in Saudi Arabia: the case of Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University
Fadzillah Bin Mohd Jamal, BA (Sains, Malaysia), MA (London)	The reawakening of Islamic consciousness in Malaysia: 1970-1987
1989	Shona Findlay Wardrop, MA (St. And.)	The lives of the Imams Muhammad al-Jawad and ‘Ali al-Hadi, and the development of the Shi’ite organisation
1990	Bustami Mohamed Said Mohamed, LLB (Khartoum), MA (Riyadh)	The Islamic concept of Sovereignty
Juma Mikidadi Omari Mtupah, BA (Medina), MA (Riyadh)	The theory of Al-Masalih Al-Mursalah in Islamic Law
Abdullah Abd Al-Muttalib Ali, BA, MA (Jordan), PhD (Manc.)	The political poetry of Nizar Qabbani: a critical study and translation

1991-2000

Year	Name	Thesis title
1991	Amin, W. Mohammed Azam ibn Mohammed, BA (Malaysia National)	An evaluation of the Qūt al-qulūb of Al-Makkī with an annotated translation of his Kitāb Al-Tawba
Abdullah Saud Al-Saud, BA (King Saud)	Central Arabia during the early Hellenistic period with particular reference to site of al’Ayun in the area of al-Aflaj in Saudi Arabia
1992	Shirley Guthrie, MA (Aberd.)	Everydaylife in the Near Easy: the evidence of the 7th/13th century illustrations of Al-Hariri’s Maqamat
Abdulmoomin Zakaria Ismael Sabbagh, BA (King Abdul Aziz), MA (Michigan)	Adjective order in Arabic
Monia Bayar, MA (Tunis), MA (Salford)	Intentionality in translation (with a special reference to Arabic/ English translation)
1993	Mohammad Khazer Saleh Al-Majali, BA, MA (Jordan)	Ibn Qutaybah’s contribution to Qur’anic studies
Asiah Bt Yaacob, BA (Malaysia)	The economic policies of the Prophet – with special reference to the alleviation of poverty
Abd El-Gadir Mohamed Ahmed, BA, MA (Khartoum)	Some aspects of the Tafsir of Mujahid
1994	Ibrahim Mohammad Ibrahim, BA (Sudan), MA (Saudi Arabia)	The testimony of witnesses and its role in Islamic criminal jurisprudence
Zainuddin Bin Jaffar, BA (Malaya), LLM (Lond.)	The concept and application of Daman in Islamic Commercial Law
1995	Alison Sarah Wernberg-Moller, MA	A Socio-Linguistic Study of the Moroccan Community of Edinburgh
Syed Muhammad Dawilah Al-Edrus	Role of Kitab Jawi in the development of Islamic thought in the Malay Archipelago with special reference to Umm al-Barāhīn and the writings on the twenty attributes, Malaysia
Hikimuthulla Bin Mh Babu Sahib Sahib, BA, MA (Peshawar)	A Study of Al-Sha’rani’s al-Mizan al-Kubra, India/Singapore
Ahmad Bashir Aziz	The Islamic Managerial Alternative: An Analysis of Management Ethics with Reference to the Malaysian Experience
Mohammad Redzuan Othman, BA (Malaya), MA (Lond.)	The Middle Eastern Influence on the Development of Religious and Political Thought in Malay Society 1880-1940
Kamaruzzaman Bin Yusoff, BA (Kebangsaan), M. Litt	History of Ottoman Egypt in the Seventeenth Century: some unpublished sources
Ana Maria Echeverria Arsuaga, LIC (Madrid)	The fortress of faith: the perception of Muslims in fifteenth century Spain
Mohamad Akram Laldin	The Theory and Application of ‘Urf in Islamic Law, Malaysia
1996	Hazizan Md Noon, BA (Malaya), MTh (Lond.)	Development and Social Change in Malaysia during the Mahathir Administration 1981-1992: a comparative sociological study with particular emphasis on their impact on the Muslim society
Byoung Joo Hah, MA (Hankuk, Korea)	Al-Farabi’s Political Theory
Jamal Fouad El-Attar, Lebanon	The Political Thought of al-Jāḥiẓ with Special Reference to the Question of Khilafa (Imamate)
Che Omar Bin Haji Awang, BA (Malaysia), MPhil (St. And)	The Methodology of Teaching in Islam, with Special Reference to the Traditional Educational Methods in Malaysia
Abdul Karim Ali, BS (Malaysia)	Al-Shafi’i’s contribution to Ḥadīth with an Annotated Translation of his Work Jima’ Al-‘Ilm
Bin Mohamad Zaid, LLB (Kuwait), LLM (Kent)	Al-Juwayni’s Doctrine of the Imamate, Malaysia
Ahmad Bin Che Yaacob, BA (Malaya)	The Development of the Institution of Ḥisbah in Medieval Islam, with Special Treatment of the Work of Yaḥyā Ibn ‘Umar (d. 289/901)
Ahmad Shah Noor, BA (NU, Malaysia), MA (Temple)	Land administration in Malaysia
Zulkiple B. Abd Ghani, BA (Kebangsaan)	Diffusion of Daw’ah through Broadcasting Media: The Experience of Radio Television Malaysia
Nadia Rahab, BA (Algiers), MA (Warwick)	Translating the Qur’an into English: problems of discourse
1997	Mohamad Som Bin Sujimon, BA (Al-Azhar), MA (Mississippi)	The Problems of doubtful parenthood (Nasab) relating to children in Islamic law
Mehmet Ali Buyukkara, BA, MA (Marmara, Istanbul)	The Imāmī-Shī‘ī Movement in the Time of Mūsā al-Kāẓim and ‘Alī al-Riḍā
Kaya Tuncer Caglayan, BA (Ondokuz Mayis, Turkey), MA (Manc.)	British Policy towards Transcaucasia 1917-1921
Joni Tamkin Borhan, BS, MS (Malaysia)	The Doctrine and Application of Partnership in Islamic Commercial Law with Special Reference to Malaysian Experiments in Islamic Banking and Finance
Mohamed Mohamed Ali, BA, MA (Al-Fatih)	Elements of the Pragmatic thinking in the Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence, with Special Reference to Medieval Sunni Legal Theorists’ Model of Textual Communication
Abdul Basir Mohamad, BA (Nat. Malaysia)	The Islamic Law of Tort
Nasimah Hussin	Discretionary Punishment in Islamic Law with Special Reference to the Shariah courts of Malaysia
Daniel Scott Feins, BA (Maine)	Wine and Islam. The Dichotomy between Theory and Practice in Early Islamic History
Abd Qader (Khalifa) Al-Marzooqi, BA, MSc (Al Azhar)	Structuralism in Modern Arabic Criticism
1998	Isham Pawan Ahmad, BSc (Illinois), MA (Chicago)	The epistemology of revelation and reason: two medieval Islamic views: Al-Farabi and Al-Ghazali
Adel Salem Al-Abdul Jader, BA (Kuwait)	Studies in the History and Thought of the Ismā‘īlī States in Medieval Yemen
Che Zarrina Sa’ari, BA, MA (Malaya)	A Study of Some Works of Ṣūfism commonly attributed to al-Ghazālī
Fareed Yaqoob Y.M. Al-Muftah, MA (Imam Sa’ud Islamic)	The sources of Al-Tabari’s Tafsir: an analytical study of the Isnads in his commentary on Surat Al-Fatiha and Surat Al-Baqara
Amir Husin Mohd Nor, BS (Malaya)	The concept of Jihad according to Sayyid Qutb in his Fi Zilal Al-Qur’an
William James Donaldson, MA (Edin), PhD (Dunelm)	Sharecropping in the Yemen: a study in Islamic Theory, Custom and Pragmatism
Ayman Abdullah Hamid Habis, BA, MA (King Abdulaziz)	Emphatic assimilation in classical and modern standard Arabic: An experimental approach to Qur'anic recitation
1999	Haci Mustafa Eravci, BA, MA (Selcuk)	Mustafa Ali’s Nusret-name with the exception of the section dealing with the rebuilding of the fortress of Kars. Edition and study of the history of the Persian Campaign under Lala Mustafa Pasa
Simin Abrahams, MA	A Historiographical/ historical Study and Annotated Translation of Volume 2 of the Afzal Tavārīkh by Fażlī Khūzānī al-Iṣfahānī
Ginette Anderson, UK	Women in Arabia from 500-600CE: their role in tribal conflict from both social and religious perspectives
Jeffrey William John Kemp, NZ, BSc (Otago)	Informal Islamic leadership in a Bangladeshi village
Yusuf Abdullah Mohammed Al-Ghailany, MA (Dunelm)	Sayyid Turki B Said: attempts and challenges in Ruling Oman 1871-1888 with especial reference to the Dhows crisis 1890-1905
Khalid Khalfan Al-Wahaibi, MLitt	The Development of the Mamluk land tenure in Egypt from 697/1297 to 882/1477
Ali Omar Abdullah Al-Abadi Al-Rawas, BA (Jordan)	The Gulf Co-operation Council: security, boundaries, and political issues
Lama Khalid Al-Mahadin, BA (Jordan), MSc (H-W)	The word and the image: translating children’s literature from English into Arabic
Azhar Mohd Nasir, BSc (Malaya), MSc (Golden Gate)	Development of the secular and religious taxation system in Malaysia
2000	Jamal Mohamed Giaber, MA, MPhil (Al-Fatih, Libya)	Translating derivational suffixes in Linguistics terminology from English into Arabic Libyan
Ammar Fadzil, MLitt (St. And.), BA (al-Azhar)	The Concept of Ḥukm in the Qur’ān
Hassan Basri Bin Awang Mat Dahan, BA (Kuwait), M.LItt (St. And)	The Construction and Validation of an Arabic Placement test to first year students at the University of Malaya
Ahmad Salman Ahmad Al-Faifi	Teaching translation at the undergraduate level in Saudi Arabia: the case of Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University
Muhammad Tahir Muhammad Ibrahim	The Ibadi constitutional thought
Md Khalil Ruslan, BS (Malaysia), MCL (Int. Islamic Malaysia)	Hawadith Tari’a in Islamic Commercial Law
Edward Boyd Thomas, MA (St And.)	Mahmud Muhammed Taha: his life in the Sudan
Fareed Mohammed Hadi Abdulqader	Ibn Ḥazm’s Methodology of Jahāla in his Book al-Muḥallā
Amjad Hussain Shah, UK	Concept of Ijmāʻ in Imāmī Shīʻī Uṣūl Al-Fiqh
Michael Patrick Donovan, BA (Calif.)	Political intelligence, American policy, and the Shah of Iran: 1950-1979

2001-2010

Year	Name	Thesis title
2001	Mohammad Qasem Al-Hamad, MA (Yarmouk, Jordan)	Translation and censorship with special reference to Jordan
Abdullah Mausallam Al-Hashmi, BEd, MEd (Sultan Qaboos)	Teaching literary texts at the secondary stage in the Sultanate of Oman: planning and practice
Aikaterini Dimitriadou, Greece, (BA Crete)	The Heşt Behişt of Idris Bidlisi: the reign of Bayezid II (1481-1512)
Sulaiman Ali Amer Al-Shuaily, BA (Sultan Qaboos), MA (Jordan)	Ibadi Tafsir with special reference to the Tafsirs of Hud al-Huwwari and Sa’id ibn Ahmad Al-Kindi
Calum Angus Macleod, MA (Glasg.)	The End of British Rule in South Arabia, 1959-1967
Asyraf Hj Ab Rahman, BA (Malaysia), MA (Leeds)	The Concept of Social Justice as Found in Sayyid Qutb’s Fī Ẓilāl al-Qur’ān
Talal Abdullah Malosh, BA (Islamic), MPhil (Al-Imam)	Early Hadith literature & theory of Ignaz Goldziher
2002	Ahmad Jamil Ahmad Hamad, BA, MA (Jordan)	Jerusalem and the policies of settlement in the Middle East
Hamed Hamed Al-Ali, MSc (Riyadh)	Al-Dhahabi’s Tanqih, A critical edition, translation and commentary on the sections on crime, punishment and war
Fadzilah Din, BA (Ohio State), MA (Int. Islamic Malaysia)	The contribution of Tafsir al-Manar and Tarsir Al-Azhar towards understanding the Concept of Ta’ah and its observance: a theological enquiry
Sulaiman Saif Al-Ghattami, BA, MA (Sultan Qaboos)	The linguistic competencies required for preparatory school teachers of Arabic in Oman: their identification and evaluation
Mohsen Nassir Al-Salmi, MSc (Sultan Qaboos)	Training programmes for Islamic education teachers in the Sultanate of Oman: description and evaluation
Martin Richard Pugh Whittingham, MA (Cantab), BA (CNAA), MA (Brunel)	The Qu’ranic Hermeneutics of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali, with special reference to his understanding of ta’wil
2003	Mohammad Khair Nasir Atallah Al-Ali, BA (Jordan), MA (Manc.)	The Qur’anic attitude towards the People of the Book
Osman Aziz Basan, BSc (Lond)	The Great Seljuks in Turkish historiography
David Otis Coffey, BA (Wheaton Coll.), MDiv (Trinity)	Admitted Truths in Muslim-Christian Dialogue: a study of William Muir, Sayyid Ahmad Khan and William Goldsack in 19th century India
Ula Mohammad Kamel Dabbagh, BA (Kuwait), MA (Bath)	The translation of cohesion, passivisation and ideology: Newsweek in Arabic as a case study
Michael Arthur Marten, BD (Aberd.)	Attempting to bring the gospel home: Scottish Presbyterian churches’ missionary efforts to the Christians, Jews and Muslims of Palestine, 1839-1917
Rakan Tha’ar Al-Mutairi, MA (Arkansas)	Military organization under the early ‘Abbasid Caliphate
Ali M Ali Al-Nagrat, BA, MA (Libya)	Cultural life in al-Andalus in the 14th century: a study of Ibn Layun, with a critical edition of his Bughyat al-Mu‘anis
Abeer Ismael Muhammad Al-Najjar, BA (Jordan)	The representation of the question of Jerusalem in the British press 1967-2000: the Times, the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph
Saif Mohammed Saif Al Ramadhani, BA, MA (Sultan Qaboos)	Higher education development in Oman 1970-2002; challenges and achievement
2004	Wafa Abudib	Politeness: applications in translation studies [YS]
Saadan Man, Grad. (Malaya)	Islamic reform: the conflict between the traditionalists and reformists concerning matters of ʻIbādah in contemporary Malaysia
Iman Aziz Soliman, BA (Ain Shams)	Exploratory study of the teaching of Arabic as a second language in Cairo: the International Language Institute - Sahafeyeen, a programme evaluation case study
Amjad Hussain Shah, BA (Medina, New York), MA (Punjab, Lahore)	The concept of Ijma‘ in Imami-Shiite Usul al-Fiqh
2005	Luqman Haji Abdullah, BA (Shariah, Malaya)	Classical Islamic Law of Waqf : a comparative approach
Hisham Ali Jawad	Repetition in Arabic Literary Discourse: Patterns, Shifts, and Translation Strategies
Christine Margaret Laidlaw, MA	British society in the 18th century Levant: the factory communities behind "the Turkey Trade"
Lama Nusair, BA (Jordan), MSc (Heriot-Watt)	Gender writing: representation of Arab women in postcolonial literature
Olatunbosun Ishaq Tijani, BA, MA (Ibadan)	Male domination, female revolt: race, class and gender in Kuwaiti women's fiction
Ahmad Ramzi Mohamad Zubir, BA (al-Azhar) MS (Putra), Malaysia	Strategic planning in Islamic education: an exploratory comparative case study of strategic planning implementations at two Malaysian public universities
2006	Amal Al-Ayoubi, MSc (Heriot-Watt)	Reception of Arab women writers in the West
Saleh Ahmed Saif Al-Busaidi	The Effect of Doctrinal Conflict on the Science of Hadith
Kirsten Elise Furness Clarke	Aspects of the reign of Al-Mustanṣir Biʾllah, 427-487/1036-1094AD
Mohd Farid Bin Mohd Sharif, Malaysia	Concept of jihād and baghy in Islamic law: with special reference to Ibn Taymiyya
Evangelos Venetis, MA (Ioannina)	The Iskandarnama: an analysis of an anonymous medieval Persian prose romance
2007	Shayea Abdulhadi Saif Al-Hajeri	Critical edition of the eleventh volume of 'Iqd al-jumān fī tārīkh ahl al-zamān, with particular reference to the historical fragments from the lost book of Muḥammad b. 'Abd al-Malik al-Hamadhānī called: 'Unwān al-siyar fī maḥāsin ahl al-Badū wa'l Ḥaḍar or Al-Ma'ārif al-muta'khkhira
Azman Bin Mohd Noor, Malaysia	Rape in Islamic Law: problems of classification and adjudication
Hicham Semlali	Translating deixis: A subjective experience [Morocco]
Zairani Zainol	Profit/Loss sharing and risk in the Islamic banking system with a special reference to Malaysia
2008	Fuzi El Mallah	Arabic-English translational crossover viewed from a linguistic/cultural perspective: with special reference to the major principles involved in translating the metaphorical language of the Quran
Muhammad Mustaqim Mohd Zarif	Jawah hadith scholarship in the nineteenth century : a comparative study of the adaptions of Lubab al-Hadith composed by Nawawi of Banten (d.1314/1897) and Wan Ali of Kelantan (d. 1331/1913)
2009	Kifah Hanna, BA (Aleppo)	Realities reflected and refracted: feminism(s) and nationalism(s) in the fiction of Ghādah al‐Sammān and Sahar Khalīfah
Mohd Radhi Ibrahim, (Malaysia)	The epistemological foundation of knowing God according to al-Qāḍī ʻAbd al-Jabbār
Christine Beth Lindner, BA (Gordon) MA (Durham)	Negotiating the field: American Protestant missionaries in Ottoman Syria, 1823 to 1860
Alexander Mallett	A study in evil: Najm al-Dīn II-Ghāzī and Renaud of Châtillon as 'the other' in the histories of the crusading period
Salah Fahd Al-Shalhoob	Instalment sales in Islamic law: theory and practice
2010	Stephen Russell Burge, BA (St. Andrews) MSc (Edin)	Angels in Islam: A commentary with selected translations of Jalal Al-Din Al-Suyuti's Al-Haba'ik fi akhbar al-mala'ik (The Arrangement of the Traditions about Angels)
Songül Mecit, MPhil (Düsseldorf)	Rum Seljuqs (473-641/1081-1243): ideology, mentality and self-image
Matthew D. Yarrington	Lived Islam in Bangladesh: Contemporary religious discourse between Ahl-i-Hadith, 'Hanafis' and authoritative texts, with special reference to al-barzakh
Saeko Yazaki, BA (Gakushuin), MSc (Edin)	Study of Abū Tālib al-Makkī

2011-2020

Year	Name	Thesis title
2011	Jokha Alharthi	‘I Have Never Touched Her’: The Body in Al-Ghazal Al-'Udthri
Lukman Hakim Mahamod	The Alleviation of Rural Poverty in Malaysia: The Role of Zakat. A Case
2012	Wan Marhaini Wan Ahmad	Zakat Investment in Malaysia: A Study of Contemporary Policy and Practice in Relation to Sharia
2013	Antonia Fraser Fujinaga	Life and Limb: Irreversible hadd penalties in Iranian criminal courts and opportunities to avoid them
Yousef Hussein Mahmoud Hamdan, BA, MA (Jordan)	The Impact of Anglo-American New Criticism on Modern Arabic Discourse: The case of Shir (Poetry Magazine)
William Richard Oakes Jr, MA (Biola)	The Cross of Christ: Islamic Perspectives
Janet Starkey, MA (Edin), MPhil (London)	Examining Editions of The Natural History Of Aleppo: Revitalizing Eighteenth-Century Texts
2014	Majied John Robinson, BA (Camb.) MSc (Edin)	Prosopographical Approaches to the Nasab Tradition: A Study of Marriage and Concubinage in the Tribe of Muhammad, 500-750 CE
Suhaili Sarif, BS, MBA (Malaya)	Income Generation Through Zakat: The Islamization Impact on Malaysian Religious Institution
2015	Jehan al-Azzawi, BA (Queen Mary) MA (KCL)	The Making of a Resistance Identity: Communism and the Lebanese Shi'a 1943-1990
Hannah-Lena Hagemann, MA (Hamburg)	History and Memory: Kharijism in Early Islamic Historiography
Khaled Igbaria	Layla Ba'albaki and Feminism throughout her Fiction
Lina Mohamad, BA (Damascus) MSc (Edin)	The Burden of Valour - The Hero and the Terrorist-Villain in Post-9/11 Popular Fiction
Michael Munnik, BA (Carleton) MA (KCL)	Points of Contact: A Qualitative Fieldwork Study of Relationships between Journalists and Muslim Sources in Glasgow
Faisal Adel Ahmad Alwazzan, BA (Kuwait) MSc (Edin)	Politics, Economy and Religion in a Near Eastern Periphery: The Region of Bahrayn in East Arabia c. 1050 - c. 1400 CE
2016	Tobias Andersson, BA (Dalarna), MSc (Gävle)	Early Sunnī historiography: a study of the Tārīkh of Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ
	Thomas Aplin, BA (Exeter), MSc (Edin)	Ambivalence and the National Imaginary: Nation and Canon Formation in the Emergence of the Saudi Novel
	I-wen Su, BA (Nat. Chengchi) MSc (Edin)	The Shi'i past in Abu al-Faraj al-Isfahani's Kitab al-Aghani: a literary and historical analysis
	Georgios Rigas, BA (Panteion), MSc (Edin)	Hamas-Egypt Relations, Tactical Cooperation in the Margins of Strategic Differences due to Regime Survival Concerns
2017	Lovisa Berg, BA (SOAS) MA (Uppsala)	Creating a Man, a Mouse or a Monster? : Masculinity as Formulated by Syrian Female Novelists through the Second Half of the 20th Century
Alessandro Columbu, BA, MA (Bologna)	Modernity and gender representations in the short stories of Zakariyyā Tāmir: collapse of the totalising discourse of modernity and the evolution of gender roles
Raphael Christian Cormack, BA (Oxford), PGDip (AUC), MA (Colombia)	Oedipus on the Nile: Translations and Adaptations of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos in Egypt, 1900-1970
Mahmoud Awad Atiyya Ibrahim, BA (Azhar)	The Ideological Transformation of Egypt’s Largest Militant Groups
Saverio Leopardi, (Venice)	The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in Decline (1982-2007). Political Agency and Marginalisation
2018	Ching-An Chang, BA (Nat. Chengchi) MSc (Edin)	The transformation of the Syrian business community through the 2011 revolution
Harriet Ann Fildes, BA (Aberystwyth) MA (SOAS)	Turkey's 'New' Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Civil Society Factor
Jona Fras, MA, MSc (Edin)	Linguistic Practice on Contemporary Jordanian Radio: Publics and Participation
Sarah Rosalind Irving, BA (Camb.), MA (Manc.) MSc (Edin)	Intellectual networks, language and knowledge under colonialism: the work of Stephan Stephan, Elias Haddad and Tawfiq Canaan in Palestine, 1909-1948
Francesco Stermotich-Cappellari, BA (Turin), MA (Padua) MSc (Edin)	The Spiritual in Islamic Calligraphy: A Phenomenological Approach to the Contemporary Turkish Calligraphic Tradition
2019	Fayaz Shiraz Dawood Alibhai, BA (Florida), MSc (UCL)	People, Places and Texts: Re/presenting Islam in Edinburgh, Scotland
2020	Yahya Barry, BA (Madinah), MA (Copenhagen)	Feeling at Home and Seeing the Other Side: Muslim Responses to Right-Wing Populism
(Seyed) Yaser Mirdamadi, BA, MA (Mashad)	The God who Speaks with/out Words The Philosophical Problem of Revelation in Contemporary Muslim Theology
Farshid Kazemi, BA (B.C.)	Interpreter of Desires: Iranian Cinema and Psychoanalysis
Simon Peter Loynes, BA (Middlesex) MA (SOAS)	Revelation in the Qur'an: From Divine Sending Down (Tanzil) to Divine Communication (Wahy)
Benedict Nicholas Robin-D’Cruz, (MA Manc)	The Leftist-Sadrist Alliance: Social Movements and Strategic Politics in Iraq

2021 -

Year	Name	Thesis title
2021	Mukhtiar Ahmed	The Doctrine of I'jaz al-Qur'an: al-Udwi's Theory and Contribution as found in the first chapter of his Nur al'lqan fi l'jaz al-Qur'an
Mathew Barber, MSc (Edin)	Fatimid historiography and its survival. A case study of the vizierate of al-Yazuri (r. 442-450/1050-1058)
Neil Russell, BA (Stirling) MA (New School) MS (Oxford) MSc (Edin)	Authoritarianism reconstituted: 'hollow statism' and the crackdown on Islamic movements in Sisi's Egypt
2022	Ameerah Saleh Alshehri, BA (Abdulaziz)	Marvellous real in the Middle East: a comparative study of magical realism in contemporary women’s fiction
Eleanor Lucy Deacon, MSc (Edin)	Retelling Karbala: a literary analysis of key plays of the Iranian Taʿziyeh repertoire
Aurangzeb Haneef, BA (Karachi), MThS (Harvard)	The Tafsir of Sufyan al-Thawri (d. 161/778). A study of its provenance, sources, methods, and topics
Marjan Asi, BA (Maryland) MA (SOAS)	Obeying the (Unjust) Ruler: Tracing a Political Ideology in the Hadith Corpus
2023	Ali Faiq Dawood Al Lawati, BA (Manchester), MSc (City Lond)	Shariʿa Supervisory Boards and reform of the Islamic finance industry: assessing limitations of authority and frameworks of Islamic jurisprudence
2024	Badreldin Ahmed Sabry Ismail, BA (Cairo)	Abū al-Qāsim al-Qushayri’s Variegated Theology: Teleological considerations and interdisciplinary discourses
Leone Pecorini Goodall, BA (SOAS), MSc (Edin)	Sons and Daughters of the Caliphate: Succession Politics in the Marwanid and early Abbasi family (64-216/684-831)
Farah Taleb, BA , MA (LU)	Reshaping Narratives: Women Artists from West Asia and North Africa in Western Museums

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