Completed projects

Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments (MAEASaM)

Timothy Insoll FBA

ARCADIA. A charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin

2020 - 2023

Popular Healing: Christian and Islamic Practices and the Roman Inquisition in Early Modern Malta

Dionisius A. Agius FBA

British Academy

2019 - 2022

Bahari Yetu, Urithi Wetu: Our Ocean, Our Heritage

John P. Cooper

Rising from the Depths Network (GCRF)

2019 - 2019

A sorcerer’s handbook: medieval Arabic magic in context

Emily Selove

Leverhulme Research Project Grant

2019 - 2022

Iranian Performance Arts Journals Pre-1979

Leonard Lewisohn

Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) at the British Library

2018 - 2019

The Boat Builders of Zanzibar: Nautical Technology and Maritime Identity in a Changing World

John P. Cooper

British Academy

2018 - 2019

The Micropolitics of refugee crisis management: the case of Lebanon's municipalities

William Gallois

AHRC

2017 - 2018

Understanding Sharia - Perfect Past / Imperfect Present

Robert Gleave

Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA)

2016 - 2018

LAWALISI: Law, Authority and Learning in Imami Shi'ite Islam

Robert Gleave

European Commission

2016 - 2021

Archaeological research on the origins of Harar, Ethiopia

Timothy Insoll FBA

Fondation Max Van Berchem

2016 - 2017

Becoming Muslim: Conversion to Islam and Islamisation in Eastern Ethiopia

Timothy Insoll FBA

European Commission

2016 - 2020

URL:Understanding Religion and Law

Robert Gleave

GW4 Accelerator Fund

2016 - 2017

URL: Understanding Religion and Law

Robert Gleave

GW4 Initiator Fund

2015 - 2016

A Pseudo-Aristotelian Medical/Magical Arabic Manuscript

Wellcome Trust

2015 - 2015

A Pseudo-Aristotelian Medical/Magical Arabic Manuscript

Wellcome Trust

2015 - 2015

Early Career Middle Eastern Studies Research Network (MESnet)

Christina Phillips

British Academy

2015 - 2017

Understanding and Managing Intra-State Territorial Contestation: Iraq's Disputed Territories in Comparative Perspective

Gareth Stansfield

ESRC

2015 - 2018

Centre for Palestine Studies

Ilan Pappé

Sheikh Abdullah

2015 - 2018

Ibn 'Arabi's Prayers of Blessing upon the Prophet (Salawat)

Suha Taji-Farouki

The Islamic Manuscripts Association (TIMA)

2014 - 2015

Forging 'Algeria': constructions of national space and nationhood in Algeria, 1830-50

William Gallois

Gerda Henkel Foundation

2014 - 2016

Magic in Malta 1605: The Moorish Slave Sellem Bin Al-Sheikh Mansur and the Roman Inquisition

Dionisius A. Agius FBA

AHRC

2014 - 2017

Gender and Settler Colonialism: Women's Oral Histories in the Naqab

Sophie Richter-Devroe

AHRC

2014 - 2016

The Worlds of Mandaean Priests

Christine Robins (formerly Allison)

Arcadia Fund

2013 - 2018

Palestinian Refugees' Strategies of Conflict Resolution: Reconciling Citizenship Rights and Return

Sophie Richter-Devroe

Gerda Henkel Foundation

2013 - 2015

Songs of the Red Sea

Dionisius A. Agius FBA

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust

2013 - 2013

Collapse and Militarism; Continuity or Caesura: The Historiography of 18th Century Iran

Michael Axworthy

The British Institute of Persian Studies

2013 - 2013

Pilot Capacity Building of Emerging Governance Structures in Syria

Gareth Stansfield

Department for International Development

2012 - 2013

Classical Persian Poetry and Poets: the Timurid and Turkmen Periods

Leonard Lewisohn

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

2012 - 2013

Re-negotiating the Social Contract in the GCC: State-Business Relations and Reforms in the Oil-Rentier Gulf Monarchies

Marc Valeri

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

2012 - 2015

Islamic Reformulations: belief, violence, governance

Robert Gleave

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

2012 - 2015

The Sharia Project: A UK-Netherlands Islamic Legal Studies Network

Robert Gleave

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

2012 - 2014

Red Sea Conference Volume

Dionisius A. Agius FBA

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust

2012 - 2012

A common archive for 1948 Palestine

Ilan Pappé

AHRC

2012 - 2012

Kurdish Studies Scholarship Programme

Gareth Stansfield

Kurdistan Regional Government

2010 - 2015

Qatar Unified Imaging Project (QUIP)

James Onley

Qatar National Research Foundation

2010 - 2012

European Muslim Research Centre (extension)

Jonathan Githens-Mazer

Islam Expo Ltd

2010 - 2011

European Muslim Research Centre

Jonathan Githens-Mazer

The Cordoba Foundation

2010 - 2011

Islamaphobia (extension)

Jonathan Githens-Mazer

Al Jazeera Satellite Network

2010 - 2010

Gulf Research Centre Research Workshops

Gerd Nonneman

Gulf Research Foundation

2010 - 2010

Palestinian Imaginaries of Return

Ruba Salih

Council for British Research in Levant

2010 - 2010

Red Sea Project

Dionisius A. Agius FBA

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust

2010 - 2010

Flowers of Persian Song and Verse

Leonard Lewisohn

British Academy

2010 - 2011

Legitimate and Illegitimate Violence in Islamic Thought

Robert Gleave

ESRC

2010 - 2012

The Normative aspects of Turkish Foreign Policy during the 2003 Iraq War

Gerd Nonneman

British Academy

2009 - 2010

European Muslim Research Centre

Jonathan Githens-Mazer

The Cordoba Foundation

2009 - 2011

European Muslim Research Centre

Jonathan Githens-Mazer

Islam Expo Ltd

2009 - 2011

Gateways to Radicalisation

Jonathan Githens-Mazer

ESRC

2009 - 2010

Returning Jihadis research project

Jonathan Githens-Mazer

Home Office

2009 - 2010

Causes and Process of Radicalisation

Jonathan Githens-Mazer

University of Aarhus

2009 - 2009

Scholar Rescue Fund

Gerd Nonneman

Iraq Scholar Rescue Fund

2009 - 2010

British Scholar annual conference 2009

James Onley

British Academy

2009 - 2009

Hysteria & Women's Agency in Post-Conflict Iraq

Sarah Keeler

British Academy

2009 - 2009

Letters by Muslim Gallery Slaves and the case of Giorgio Scala

Dionisius A. Agius FBA

British Academy

2009 - 2009

Clerical Authority in Shi'i Islam

Robert Gleave

British Society of Middle Eastern Studies

2009 - 2012

Ibn 'Arabi' and his Shrine Complex in Contemporary Damascus

Suha Taji-Farouki

British Academy

2009 - 2012

Emeritus Fellowship

Gareth Stansfield

Leverhulme Trust

2008 - 2010

Martime ethnography of the Red Sea and the Arabian or Persian Gulf (Golden Web Foundation)

Dionisius A. Agius FBA

The Golden Web Foundation

2008 - 2011

Party System and Democracy in the Maghreb

Lise Storm

Leverhulme Trust

2008 - 2009

Shah 'Abbas I and the Great Shrines of the Safavids

Robert Gleave

AHRC

2008 - 2009

Network of British Researchers and Practitioners of Islamic Law

Robert Gleave

AHRC

2007 - 2009

Eritrea Fieldwork in Maritime Ethnography

Dionisius A. Agius FBA

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust

2007 - 2008

Ethno-Politics in a Globalised World

Gareth Stansfield

The Leverhulme Trust

2007 - 2012

Cultures of Repression: the Legacy of Colonial Violence and State Repression in the Maghreb, and its Effect on North African Diasporas in Europe

Jonathan Githens-Mazer

ESRC

2007 - 2010

Party Systems and Democracy in the Maghreb

Lise Storm

Leverhulme Trust

2007 - 2009

Shi'ism and Identity

Robert Gleave

British Academy

2007 - 2008

State Business Relations and Employment Nationalization Policy in the Persian Gulf

Tim Niblock

European Commission

2007 - 2009

Cultures of Repression: The legacy of colonial violence and state repression in the Maghreb

Jonathan Githens-Mazer

ESRC

2007 - 2009

Between Kurds, Turkmens and Arabs: Managing Kirkup

Gareth Stansfield

Leverhulme Trust

2007 - 2010

Myths, memories and massacres in the formation of Algerian national identity

Jonathan Githens-Mazer

British Academy

2007 - 2007

Mapping Islamic philosophical traditions and knowledge networks in India, 1450-1850

Sajjad Rizvi

British Academy

2006 - 2009

Ibn Mytham project

Robert Gleave

Discursis

2006 - 2009

Ministry of Defence Project 1

Gareth Stansfield

Ministry of Defence

2005 - 2006

Ethno-Religious Diversity and the State in the Contemporary Middle East - the Case of the Armenian Communities in Lebanon and Syria (Travel Grant)

Tim Niblock

Council for British Research in the Levant

2003 - 2004

Archive of Media Coverage of the 2003 War on Iraq: Research Assistance

Gareth Stansfield

University of Birmingham

2003 - 2003

The Journals of Thomas Machell

Tim Niblock

British Academy

2001 - 2002