Current postgraduate projects

Our postgraduate students research in a variety of areas. We include a list of PhD students' research topics below.

Mohamed Ahmed Abdelrahman	Theology and Legal Theory in the Fifth/Eleventh Century:
Mukhtiar Ahmed
Michael Aldrich	Islam in China
Antonia Fraser Fujinaga	Islamic Derivation of Iranian Criminal Law
Maryam Ghorbankarimi	Women's Roles in Iranian Cinema
Mahmoud Ibrahim	Theological Epistemology
Khaled Igbaria	Layla Baalbakki and Feminism within her Literature
Lina Mohamad	Stereotypical Representations of Terrorism in Anglo-American, French, and Russian Post-9/11 Popular Fiction
Rick Oakes	An Analysis of Quranic Surahs 4 and 5
Elizabeth Omidvaran	Theological aspects of the works of the early fifth/eleventh century scholar al-Raghib al-Isfahani
Jehan Saleh	The political mobilization of Lebanon's Shi'a Community
Suhaili Sarif	Income Generation through Zakat: An Islamization Impact on Malaysian Religious Institution
Janet Starkey	Early Modern History of the Middle East
L. Stephanie Tait	Cinematic Representations of Salah al-Din
Theresa Steward	Post-revolutionary popular music practice in Iran

IMES postgraduates research in a wide range of topics.