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Department of the Languages and Cultures of the Near and Middle East

PhD Students

Maha Abdel Megeed
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Muwaylihi's Isa ibn Hisham: Between 18th-Century Revival and 19th-Century Neoclassical Renaissance

Nadia Ait Said-Ghanem
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Sentence Types and Word-Order Patterns in Old Babylonian Omen Texts: Investigated according to the Principles of Written Arabic Grammar and Arabic Sentence Structure Theory


Siba Aldabbagh
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Word and Image in Visual Art and Poetry from the Arab World

Ayca Baydar
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The Hybrid Identity of the Karamanlis


Zeynel Abidin Besleney
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Actors and Ideologies of Circassian Diaspora Politics in Turkey in the Era of Globalisation

Safaruk Chowdhury
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Theosophy in the Work of al-Sulami


Alessandro Columbu
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Depicting Syria: the short stories of Zakariyya Tamir

Ferah Contopoulos-Engin
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The Role of the Media in Greek-Turkish Relations since 1999.


Sarah Doebbert Epstein
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The Ethics of Alterity: A Comparative Critical Approach to Language, Subjectivity and Agency in Arabic Rhetorical Theory and Poststructuralist Thought

Hannah Erlwein
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History of the Development of Arguments for the Existence of God in Classical Islamic Discourse


Timothy Green
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Issues of Identity for First-Generation Christians in Pakistan

Henrik Hansen
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The Diversity of Muslim-Christian Dialogue in Cairo: An Analysis of the Relation between Social and Religious Affiliation and its Impact on Religious Dialogue


Ramon Harvey
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Justice in the Qur’an: A Study in Relation to Language and Composition

Laura Hassan
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Physical theory and Creation in the thought of Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī (d.1233): a study of the integration of falsafī methods and doctrines into Ash’arī kalām (Working Title)


Kamal Hussain
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Epistemological Congruence of Modernist Thought: a Case Study of Minority Fiqh and Other Related Matters

Cleo Jay
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Moroccan Theatre in the Post-Lead Years: Performing Identity, Politics and Society.


Ayse Kara
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Istanbul through Moroccan Travellers’ Eyes from 16th to 18th Century: a Comparative Study of Moroccan-Ottoman Travel Writing

Yusra Khreegi
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Gender and "the Woman Question" in the Thought of Muhammad 'Abduh


Sibel Kocaer
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The Figure of Hızır (Khidr) in Ottoman Literature

Anastasia-Aglaia Lemos
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Inter-War Turkish and Greek Novels on Anatolia


Onees Lodhi
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Migration (Hijra) and Travel in Early Islam

Bita Mafizadeh
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Contemporary Iranian Theater Translation and Cultural Relocation: A Cultural Approach to Transfer of Persian Theatrical Texts onto English Stages through Translation


Abdur-Rahman Mangera
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A Critical Edition of Abū l-Layth al-Samarqandī’s Nawāzil

Nora E.H. Parr
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Intertextuality in Palestinian Literature: Novel Formulations of Nation-ness


Peter Phillips
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Poetry in the Arabic Popular Epic

Tariq Suleman
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Zionism and its Discourse in Indian Muslim Politics from 1917 to 1947


Peter Webb
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The Pre-Islamic Past: The 'Idea' of History and Historical Reconstruction