grantee profiles

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Materiality at the Western Edge: Reconsidering Islamic Art in Medieval Portugal at the 21st Ernst Herzfeld Society Colloquium Renata Fontanillas is a researcher affiliated with the Institute of Art History of the University of Lisbon. She holds a PhD in Art Hi

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Mud & Concrete: The Reinvention of Vernacular Architecture in Egypt at the turn of the 20th Century El-Taliawi is an architect and researcher from Cairo, specialising in the research and practice of earthen and vernacular architecture in the Middle East and t

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Since 2006 The Barakat Trust has helped fund the place for a museum practitioner from the Islamic world to take part in The British Museum's International Training Programme (ITP). The ITP runs for six weeks over each summer and brings together a diverse group

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The Barakat Trust will help fund Ehsan's MSt in Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of Oxford. He has a particular focus on architectural metrology (the study of measurement) in early modern Iran that arose out of a longstanding engagement with arch

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The Barakat Trust will support Hatem Arafa’s MA in Arabic Studies, specialising in Islamic Art and Architecture, at the American University in Cairo. This study will help him deepen the historical and theoretical foundations of a practice that brings togethe

B2 Grantee

Building, Inscribing, Inhabiting Along the Iris River Valley: Amasea/Amasya at the Crossroads of Turco-Mongol, Persianate, and Italianate Traditions Damla Özakay is a scholar of Islamic art and architecture with a focus on architectural production and city-bu

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Publication: Pottery production and circulation in Northern Africa from Late Antiquity to the Post Medieval Period (6th-18th century CE) Viva Sacco is an Associate Lecturer (Teaching) in Islamic Archaeology at University College London. Her research focuses on

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Publication: The Mamluk Opus Sectile Art: Featuring Mamluk Architectural Decorations Eman Shokry Hesham is a researcher on the History of Islamic Art and Architecture and focuses on the history of architectural ornaments. The Mamluk Opus Sectile Art highlights

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Educational Resources on the history of the Omari Mosque, Gaza Yossef Rapoport is a historian of the social, cultural, and legal aspects of life in the Islamic, Arabic-speaking Middle East in its Middle Ages, from about 1000 to 1500 AD. He is Professor in Isla

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Archaeology and Heritage Capacity Building in Somaliland Jorge holds a PhD in Archaeology from the Universities of Granada (Spain) and Padova (Italy). He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Heritage Sciences of the Spanish National Resea

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Study and Architectural Analysis of the Historical Mosque in Silmo village, Ladakh (Indian Himalayas) in view of its conservation project Edoardo is an independent researcher and conservation architect specializing in traditional construction techniques, with

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Arabic Legal Papyri Research at the Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung in Berlin Tobias Scheunchen is a social and material historian of the Middle East interested in the formation of the Islamic state, documentary culture, and the intersection of Byzanti

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Digitisation of Persian Rare Books and Manuscripts Across India with Select Urdu and Arabic Materials The eGangotri Project, an open-access-first digital endeavour, is dedicated to the scanning and digitisation of rare books and manuscripts in the Indian sub-c

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"Mapping Modernity: Cartography, Power, and the Representation of Urban Space in Qajar Tehran" at Iranian Studies Association 2026 Conference Boshra Moossavi is a PhD student in Architecture at McGill University. Her research explores nineteenth-century Iran t

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Islamic Manuscript Illumination in Minangkabau: Digital Documentation, Cataloguing, and Public Access Pramono is a Professor of Manuscript Studies at Universitas Andalas, Indonesia. For more than two decades, he has documented, studied, and worked to preserve

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Developing a Digital Database for Islamic Period (10-14th centuries) Pottery in Azerbaijan Aslan Gasimov is an archaeologist, lecturer, and researcher specializing in medieval archaeology, ceramic studies, and multidisciplinary archaeological research methods.

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Replicating the Ka‘ba in Medieval India Peyvand Firouzeh is Assistant Professor of Islamic Art at the University of Cambridge and author of Intimacies of Global Sufism: Ne'matullahi Shrines and Material Culture Between Iran and India (Indiana University Pre

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The Influence of Islamisation in the Material Culture of Northern Nigeria: An Archaeological Investigation of Birnin-Bordan Settlement, Birnin Kudu, Nigeria (10th-18th Centuries) Abdulmalik is currently a CHASE doctoral researcher at the Sainsbury Research Uni

A4 Grantee

Sahar Hosseini is an architectural and landscape historian of the Islamic world, specializing in the early modern period and Safavid Persia (1501-1736). Her research puts architectural history into conversation with the environmental humanities and ecocritical

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Mapping Sendang Duwur, a 16th-c. Islamic Site in Java, Indonesia Panggah Ardiyansyah recently completed his PhD in the History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS University of London, whose thesis explores the notion of kramat (Javanese/Malay for sacred site/objec

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History of the Architecture of Syria, Volumes One and Two Prof. Dr. Abd Al-Razzaq Moaz is a distinguished international expert in architectural heritage, with over thirty years of academic and professional experience in the history of Islamic architecture, arc

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The Art and History of Qalamkār in Iran and India: Origins, Techniques, Colour, and Cultural Significance as a Living Heritage Sara Noori is a PhD candidate in Art History at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU), Germany. Her research focuses on texti