Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Welcome to the IMES website
IMES is recognised in the UK and internationally as a leading institution for research and undergraduate and postgraduate study. It offers a wide range of undergraduate degree programmes in Arabic, Persian and Middle Eastern Studies, as well as non-degree training in Turkish.
Our staff carry out research and offer teaching and supervision for honours and postgraduate study across a broad spectrum of areas including Islamic history, Islamic philosophy, modern Middle Eastern history, politics of the modern Middle East, Shi'ism, Sufism, cultural studies of the modern Middle East, Persian, Arabic and Turkish languages, translation studies, diaspora studies, modern and classical Arabic literature, modern and classical Persian literature, cinema and media studies of the Middle East.
In the 2008 UK Research Assessment Exercise, IMES achieved the second-highest national result (in a tie with Oxford), confirming the department's continuing role as a leading programme for research and study of Islam, the Middle East, and other related subjects. Over 70% of research activity in IMES was classified as being 'world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour'. Furthermore, IMES, was successful in its competitive bid to establish the Centre for the Advanced Study of the Arab World (with the universities of Durham and Manchester), and most recently received a large donation to establish the Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World.
For more information about Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies' research profile please click here.
We organise and sponsor ongoing workshops and lecture series. For more details on our public activities, please look at our "News and Events" page. We welcome your questions or comments and thank you for your interest!
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