Congratulations to Mushegh Asatryan

Congratulations to Arabic Language and Muslim Cultures assistant professor Dr. Mushegh Asatryan who has been awarded the Zahid Ali Fellowship, in the amount of £5000.

The prestigious Zahid Ali Fellowship is awarded once every five years to an internationally renowned scholar working in the field of Classical Arabic Literature who will use the award to publish research on a topic of relevance to Ismaili Studies.

Please join us in the School in congratulating and celebrating Dr. Asatryan's tremendous achievement. 

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The Zahid Ali Fellowship was established in 1997 by The Institute of Ismaili Studies in the name of Professor Zahid Ali (1888-1958), a pioneer of modern Ismaili Studies, at the bequest of Professor Zahid Ali's son, the late Professor Abid Ali, and his family.

Belonging to a prominent Bohra Ismaili family of India, Professor Zahid Ali was educated at Oxford University, and later taught at the Nizam College in Hyderabad. He produced the first modern studies of Ismaili history and Ismaili doctrines, based on primary Ismaili sources; these works were published in Urdu in 1948 and 1954.

Professor Zahid Ali had also inherited an important collection of Ismaili manuscripts, which had been acquired by several generations of his ancestors. This collection was also bequeathed to the Institute by the late Professor Abid Ali and his family.