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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
Fondation Max Van Berchem
2016 - 2017
Becoming Muslim: Conversion to Islam and Islamisation in Eastern Ethiopia
Timothy Insoll
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