Promoting Research

DPhil Studentship

• In October 2012 the CISOQ Programme funding board approved the establishment of a fully-funded 3-year (extending to a maximum of 4 years) graduate studentship
• Enables outstanding students to undertake doctorate research within the area of contemporary Islamic studies
• Funded by the His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Endowment Fund Programme for Islamic Studies, established at Oxford by a generous benefaction from His Highness Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
• Scholarship thesis topics so far:
  • 2012, 4 years, The Internal Conversation of Hamas: Salafism and the Rise of the Ulama
  • 2017, 4 years, Capitalism with Islamic Characteristics? The tracing of the construction of Islamic capitalism through a genealogy of the concepts of the market, private property, and social justice in 20th century Islamic thought

Academic Visitors for Independent Research

• The CISOQ programme welcomes visiting scholars and visiting graduate students for self-funded independent research projects connected with some aspect of the programme’s work
• Since the programme’s establishment, CISOQ has welcomed visiting academics from Belgium, Brazil, France, The Netherlands, Qatar, Turkey and the USA; and visiting graduate students from Belgium, France, Germany and Turkey

Research Collaboration

The CISOQ programme has worked with St Antony’s College to provide the operational management and venue facilities for some of the research seminars that are a unique key component of the Research Centre for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), part of the Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) and the College of Islamic Studies (CIS), Doha, Qatar. During these 3-day workshops, scholars of Islamic religious texts and expert practitioners explore contemporary challenges in specific subject fields:

• May 2015 Islamic Ethics and Gender; including a lively public panel discussion focusing on ‘Women and Men in Religious and Ethical Thought: Towards an Alternative Approach’ in light of contemporary realities
• April 2014 Islamic Ethics and Education
• May 2013 Islamic Ethics and Art including a public panel discussion on The Ethical Limits of Artistic Expression? An Islamic Perspective exploring the relationship between ethics religion and art and discuss whether Islamic ethics hinders artistic expression