Categories : Field-specific (academic)

The Fatimids

Launch of the Shii Studies Network

The Shii Studies Network aims to provide a space for graduate students researching Shiism to forge personal and professional connections, share their research with and learn from each other, and push the field forward.

Membership of the Network is open to students currently enrolled on a doctoral program at universities, divinity schools, and seminaries anywhere in the world who work on or who have an interest in the study of Shiism in any of its manifestations, across any time period, and in any region.

For more information, see the Network’s website: https://www.shiistudies.net/.

Political Anthropology of Yemen, A

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Since July 2023, Dr. Qutbuddin is the AlBabtain Laudian Professor of Arabic in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Oxford, and a Professorial Fellow of St John’s College.
Originally from Mumbai, Dr. Qutbuddin earned a BA and Tamhidi Magister from Ain Shams University, Cairo, and a PhD from Harvard. She taught briefly at Yale and the University of Utah, then for two decades at the University of Chicago.
She teaches classical Arabic literature from its oral beginnings in the 7th century to the cusp of modernity around 1800, seeing it as a direct window into the rich culture and thought of the vast medieval Arabic-speaking world.
She has been awarded by HE Sheikh Thani in the category of Arabic to English translations, for her work on the Nahj al-Balagha, in the “2024 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding” winners circle.