School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures
The University of Edinburgh School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures

Current postgraduate projects

Introduction

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

Current PhD projects
  • 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.

Current students