Current MPhil & PhD Students

Profiles of those students who have provided further information are available here.

MPhil Dissertation Titles
 
 
 
Hebrew Studies/ Aramaic Studies

Mr Oz Aloni
Research Title: 'The Jewish Community of Zakho'
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan

Miss Jennifer Grayson
Research Title: 'The Genizah Fragments of Kitab al-Luma by Ibn Janah'
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan

Middle Eastern Studies/ Arabic Studies

Mr Jonas Caballero
Research Title: 'Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: How Politics and Democracy Discourse have Reshaped the Development of the Grassroots Movement in Palestine'
Supervisor: Dr Lori Allen

Mr Stuart Laing
Research Title: 'Factors in the Decisions by the Sultans of Muscat and Zanzibar to End the Slave Trade and Slavery in their Dominions, Late 19th Century'
Supervisor: Dr Amira Bennison

PhD Thesis Titles
Neo-Aramaic & Syriac Studies

Miss Sasha Anisimova
Research Title: ‘East Syriac Mystics of the Seventh and Eighth Centuries’
Supervisor: Dr David Taylor (University of Oxford)

Mr Illan Gonen
Research Title: 'The Grammar of the Jewish North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic Dialect Zakho'
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan

Ms Lidia Napiorkowska
Research Title: 'The Grammar of the Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Diyana Zeranaye'

Hebrew Studies

Mr Seulgi Byun
Research Title: ‘The Influence of Post-Biblical Hebrew B-R-R in Isaiah’
Supervisor: Professor Robert Gordon

Miss Kathrin Egger
Research Title: 'Non-Active Voice in North-Eastern Neo-Aramaic: An Overview'
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan

Mr Bayarjargal Garamtseren
Research Title: 'Hellenistic-Diaspora Viewpoints in the Septuagint: A Study of the Psalms'
Supervisor: Professor Robert Gordon

Mr Jonathan Gibson
Research Title: 'Obadiah's Intertexuality and its Contribution to Wider Biblical Theological Issues'
Supervisor: Professor Robert Gordon

Mrs Mattie Greathouse
Research Title: ‘Divergences Between MT and LXX in Psalms 41 (42) and 42 (43)’
Supervisor: Professor Robert Gordon

Mr Joshua Harper
Research Title: 'Yet Will I Rejoice: An Examination of the Early Interpretations of Habakkuk'
Supervisor: Professor Robert Gordon

Mrs Elizabeth Robar
Research Title: ‘Biblical Hebrew Verbal Morphology: Its Uses and Abuses’
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan

Miss Melonie Schmierer
Research Title: ‘Aspects of the Historical Phonology of Aramaic’
Supervisor: Professor Geoffrey Khan

Arabic, Persian & Ottoman Studies

Mrs Hawraa Al-Hassan
Research Title: ‘Literature and Propaganda under Saddam Hussein:
A Study of Cultural Production under the Ba'th Party’
Supervisor: Professor Yasir Suleiman

Mr Arshad Hadjirin
Research Title: 'Histories of Towns and City States: A Historiographical Study of Islamic Local History'
Supervisor: Dr Amira Bennison

Mr Erol Baykal
Research Title: 'The Ottoman press in Istanbul, 1908-1923’
Supervisor: Dr Kate Fleet

Miss Peyvand Firouzeh
Research Title: 'An Architectural History of Khanaqah Based on Sufi Literature'
Supervisor: Professor Charles Melville

Mr Diego Giolitti
Research Title: ‘Avicenna and Averroes in the Re-making of Aristotle’s Poetic’
Supervisor: Dr Christine van Ruymbeke

Mr Evangelos Katafylis
Research Title: ‘The Role of the Orthodox Faith in the Early Ottoman State: Christian-Muslim Contacts and Interrelations in the 14th to the 16th Centuries’
Supervisor: Dr Amira Bennison (Principal Supervisor)

Mr Hunter Keith
Research Title: ‘Balkhi School of Arabic Geography’
Supervisor: Dr Basim Musallam

Ms Nur Sobers Khan
Research Title: ‘The Dynamics of Slavery in 16th-century Ottoman Istanbul’
Supervisor: Dr Kate Fleet

Mr Chaoqun Lian
Research Title: 'Language Academies and Language Policy in the Arabic Speaking World'
Supervisor: Professor Yasir Suleiman

Ms Phoebe Luckyn-Malone
Research Title: ‘Arabic Agronomical Manuals and the Agriculture of Islamic Spain’
Supervisor: Dr Amira Bennison

Mr Shivan Mahendrarajah
Research Title: 'The Sufi Shaykhs of Jam: A Social History from the Late Il-Khanid to Early Timurid Periods'
Supervisor: Professor Charles Melville

Mr Manar Makhoul
Research Title: ‘The Palestinian Literature in the 1970’s’
Supervisor: Professor Yasir Suleiman

Mr Michael Mumisa
Research Title: ‘The Discursive Construction of Jahiliyya in Classical Arabic Literature’
Supervisor: Professor James Montgomery

Mrs Amina Nawaz
Research Title: ‘Inheritors of al-Andalus: A Muslim Minority in Sixteenth Century Spain’
Supervisor: Dr Amira Bennison

Mr Luke Peterson
Research Title: ‘Western Media and the Election of Hamas: Structures, Representations, and Social Cognition’
Supervisor: Professor Bert Vaux (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages)

Miss Maryam Serajiantehrani
Research Title: 'A Proposal on Sohrab Sepehri's Poetic Hertiage'
Supervisor: Dr Christine van Ruymbeke

Mr Will Smiley
Research Title: ‘The Russo-Ottoman Wars and Reform in the Eighteenth Century’
Supervisor: Dr Kate Fleet

Mr James Weaver
Research Title: Representation and Authority in 9th Century Arabic Texts
Supervisor: Professor James Montgomery