Research Projects
Current Projects
Research projects currently being undertaken by members of staff within the Department:
Hebrew & Semitic Studies
Arabic & Persian Studies
- Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies
(formerly Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies) - Political Legitimacy in the Islamic West
- Shahnama Project
- Ashraf Abdelhay
- Interfaith relations in Medieval Islam
- Professor Montgomery
- Between the image and the word: an enquiry into use of symbolic images in Persian Calligraphy
Faculty Research Groups
Related Research Projects
Civilizations in Contact
Civilizations in Contact is an interdisciplinary Research Project within the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, funded by the Golden Web Foundation, involving history, archaeology, geography, economics, language and literature. It is devoted to researching and mapping trade and wider cultural exchanges across political and cultural boundaries during the pre-modern era (primarily before 1800 CE). Among its research topics is:
Staff Information
