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DPhil Studentship

In October 2012 the CISOQ Programme funding board approved the creation of a fully-funded 3-year (extending to a maximum of 4 years) graduate studentship, to enable outstanding students to undertake doctorate research within this area. The studentship call is managed through the Faculty of Oriental Studies and awards are offered following an independent assessment review of applications.

Award recipients:

Mr Jose Vericat, October 2012 for 4 academic years, researching "The Internal Conversation of Hamas: Salafism and the Rise of the 'Ulama'". Jose talks to us about his research: Muslim politics are not monolithic. Hamas is a movement that has a specific agenda, different from other Islamic movements. Also the values and motivations that Hamas acts according to are not all rooted in Islam. Further, its doctrine changes depending on the situation as well as over time, though often it tries to justify such modifications within a religious framework. As I analyze the decisions the movement makes and the discussions around these I pay particular attention to the use of religious references, and the different functions that they serve. I try to show that there is a heated internal debate, a wide variety of opinions struggling with each other to define values and shape the movement. I also trace the origins of these discussions to debates in Islamic intellectual history. My overall aim is to decode the religious, political and philosophical underpinnings of Hamas and by doing so to throw some light on the relation between religion and politics in political Islam in general.  

Mr Martyn Rush, October 2017 researching “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”.

Patron

The Rt Hon Lord Patten of Barnes (Chris Patten), Chancellor of the University of Oxford. A former European Commissioner and Governor of Hong Kong, Lord Patten's books include: The Tory Case (1983); East and West (1998) and the most recent one Not Quite the Diplomat (2005). Lord Patten holds a regular Chancellor's Seminar once a term under the auspices of the Centre, usually with a distinguished European guest.

Academic Advisory Committee

• Dr Othon Anastasakis
• Prof Kalypso Nicolaidis
• Mr. Jonathan Scheele
• Sir David Madden
• Mr Graham Avery
• Mr Adam Bennett
• Ms Julie Adams
• Dr Paul Flather
• Prof Paul Betts
• Mr Gijs De Vries
• Prof Anne Deighton
• Prof Nick Stargardt
• Prof Timothy Garton Ash
• Dr Cathryn Costello
• Prof Jan Zielonka
• Dr Renee Hirschon
• Prof Robert Gildea
• Dr Hartmut Mayer
• Ms Jessica Dancy
• Visiting Fellows for the Centre 2018-19
• President of the European Affairs Society
   

Distinguished Friend of St Antony's:

Sir David Madden
 

SCR Members:

• Mr Graham Avery
• Dr Valerie Caton
• Mr Richard Davy
• Prof Anne Deighton
• Dr Paul Flather
• Prof Michael Freeden
• Prof Andreas Gestrich
• Dr Renee Hirschon
• Mr John Howell
• Sir David Madden
• Dr Charles Powell
• Prof Peter Pulzer
• Lady Elizabeth Bray Bernard Roberts
• Dr Marcel Thomas
• Mr Jonathan Scheele
   

Postdoctoral Scholars and Researchers in Oxford of Middle Eastern Studies 

Steering Committee Members

Professor Nancy Bermeo, Nuffield Professor of Comparative Politics
Professor Pekka Hamalainen, Rhodes Professor of American History
Professor Andrew Hurrell, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations
Dr Halbert Jones, Director, Rothermere American Institute
Professor Neil MacFarlane, Lester B Pearson Professor of International Relations
Professor Margaret MacMillan, Warden, St Antony's College
Dr Diego Sanchez-Ancochea, University Lecturer in the Political Economy of Latin America
Mr Laurence Whitehead, Official Fellow in Politics, Nuffield College