Dr Ani Avetisyan
- Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow
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Dr Ani Avetisyan is currently a Rothschild Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge and a Research Affiliate at the Woolf Institute. She received her PhD from the University of Cambridge, where her research focused on Judaeo-Arabic manuscripts preserved at the Matenadaran (Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts, Yerevan).
Dr Avetisyan holds degrees in Arabic Studies from Yerevan State University and in Jewish Civilisations from Paideia–The European Institute for Jewish Studies in Stockholm and Heidelberg University.
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Research interests
- Judaeo-Arabic
- Middle Eastern studies
- Arabic and Persian philology and manuscripts
- Comparative Semitic Philology
- Early and mediaeval Islamic history
- Jewish textuality
Her current research investigates Judaeo-Arabic medical and scientific texts from the Cairo Genizah, addressing questions of language choice, knowledge accessibility, and the mechanisms of knowledge transmission among minority communities and across communal boundaries. More broadly, her interests include manuscript studies, history of medicine, intercultural intellectual exchange, and the social history of knowledge transmission in the premodern Middle East.