Below you will find a listing of some of the current students of the Institute of Islamic Studies (IIS). This list is intended to foster communication and scholarly interaction between Institute students, students of other institutions and also for potential Institute students who desire more information about the IIS from a student perspective. To contact a particular student, please send your request to Students and it will be forwarded.

(click below on the first letter of the student's last name)

Disclaimer: The following list shows those students in our department who have consented in writing to have their names appear below; it is not necessarily a complete list of all of our graduands and/or current students.

A-D E-G H-L M-O P-S U-Z

A-D

Selim Argun, PhD candidate
Research: The Waqf institution in Islam and its socio-economic aspects.

Dima Ayoub, PhD candidate
Research: Modern Arabic and Anglophone Arab Women's literature and questions of reception and translation

Daniela Bargelli, PhD candidate
Research: Pre-1962 Algeria.

Faika Çelik, PhD candidate
Research: Marginalized Groups in the Ottoman Empire (16th to 18 th centuries.

E-G

Heather Empey, PhD candidate
Research: Ibn Tumart and Almohadism

H-L

Fachrizal Halim, PhD candidate
Research: The Formation of Islamic Law in the Malay-Indonesian World

Mohammad Hannan Hassan, PhD candidate
Research: Inter-Faith dialogue in Mediaval Islam: Educational Implications

Bilal Ibrahim, PhD candidate
Research: Islamic Legal Theory

Mohammad Saani Ibrahim, PhD candidate
Research: Tijaniyya Sufi Order in Ghana

Aaron Johnson, PhD candidate
Research: Ottoman History

Mehmet Karabela, PhD candidate
Research: The Development of Argumentation Theory (Âdâb al-Bahth) in Post-Classical Islamic Intellectual History (8th/14th Through 10th/16th Centuries)

Farah Kawtharani, PhD candidate
Research: Modern Islamic movements

Line Khatib, PhD candidate
Research: The Syrian state's conflict with the Muslim Brotherhood from the 1950's onwards

M-O

Gregory Mack, PhD candidate
Research: Islamic Law and Thought

David Mason, PhD candidate
Research: Modernization and secularization in Turkey

Rizwan Mohammad, MA candidate
Research: Islamic Philosophy

Başak Ozoral, PhD candidate
Research: Economic history of Turkey

P-S

Jean-Mathieu Potvin, PhD candidate
Research: Islamic legal thought and practice in the contemporary world

Junaid Quadri, PhD candidate
Research: Islamic Law

Sally Ragep, PhD candidate
Research: an edition and English translation of the elementary astronomical text of al-Mulakhkhas of `Umar al-Jaghmini (fl. 1st half of the 13th c., Khwarizm), its commentary tradition, and it significance for teaching in Islamic societies; the teaching of the exact sciences in the madrasas

Fatima Seedat, PhD candidate
Research: Islamic Law; Women's Rights

U-Z

Emre Unlucayakli, PhD candidate
Research: State - society relations, secularism and Islam in Turkey.

Gulay Yilmaz, PhD candidate
Research: 17th-18th Century Ottoman urban culture and the Janissary army

Walter Young, PhD candidate
Research: Early Islamic law, Arabic papyrology, Usûl al-fiqh, pre-Islamic Arabia, Arabic language.

Mida Zantout, PhD candidate
Research: Family law