Research Associates
- Current
- Past
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Taushif Kara
Taushif Kara is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral research focuses on the intellectual history of the Khoja diaspora around the Indian ocean world (ca. 1866 – 1972).
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Vivek Gupta
Vivek is a historian of the arts of the Islamic, South Asian, and Indian Ocean worlds. At Cambridge, he will be turning his thesis into a monograph, researching Bihari Qur’an manuscripts, and pursuing outreach that addresses curatorial literacy in India.
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Emanuelle Degli Esposti
Dr Emanuelle Degli Esposti is a Research and Outreach Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies working on the subject of “Fighting for “Justice”, Engaging the Other: The Public Face of European Shi’ism.
email: ed530@cam.ac.uk
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Arafat Razzaque
Arafat Razzaque is a Research and Outreach Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies – working on Piety as Social Ethics: Speech and Public Morality in Islamic History.
His current project, ‘Fostering Ethics’, focuses on the issue of adoption and foster care in the Muslim community. Arafat Razzaque is looking at ways in which historical perspectives on kinship and the family can contribute to an improved understanding of the challenges related to adoption in Islamic law, and towards bridging the gap between academic knowledge and social work.
email: aar46@cam.ac.uk
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Mehrunisha Suleman
Dr Mehrunisha Suleman is a Research and Outreach Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies – working on End of Life Care for Muslims in the UK.
email: ms520@cam.ac.uk
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Deniz Türker
Deniz Türker is a Research and Outreach Associate specialising in Islamic Art. She is an Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of History of Art and the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
email: dt459@cam.ac.uk
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Ryan Williams
Dr Ryan Williams was a Research Associate at the Centre of Islamic Studies – working on radicalisation and Muslim experience in the Criminal Justice System. He has now moved to Australia to take up a position at the University of Queensland.
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