项目介绍

2022年8月17日

A PhD in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (IMES) is an opportunity to expand upon your interests and expertise in a community that really values research, and to make a definite and original contribution to the field.

Why Edinburgh

With over 260 years of history in teaching and research, we are globally recognised as a leading centre for postgraduate study in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies.

Our research resources and facilities are outstanding, and we have excellent links with a number of centres and networks, including the Alwaleed Centre and the Centre for Medieval & Renaissance Studies.

Research areas

We are able to supervise research in a wide range of specialist and interdisciplinary areas.

Our expertise includes:

• Language and literature: classical and modern Arabic literature, classical Persian literature, cultural transmission and translation between Arabic and Persian cultures
• History and historiography: pre-Islamic Iran, early Islamic history, Ottoman history, modern history, in particular Iraq, Iran and Egypt; the Middle Eastern prison, the Middle Eastern press
• Religion: early and classical Islam, Qur’an and Qur’anic exegesis, Hadith, the biography of Muhammad, Sufism, Islam in the Ottoman Empire, contemporary religious authority
• Contemporary Muslim politics: Islamism, sectarianism, social movements, comparative social and political change in the Muslim world
• Arts and cultures of the Middle East, and of Muslim societies: particularly visual arts, cinema
• Gender and sexuality in the Middle East and North Africa, contemporary Arab media
• Shi’ism: Shi’i history and contemporary Shi’ism in local and transnationalist perspective
• Islam and Muslims in Europe
• Diasporas and ethnic minorities of the Middle East

In addition, you have the opportunity to undertake interdisciplinary research in areas such as:

• comparative literature
• film studies
• translation studies