Our Grantees

Necmeddin Besikci is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.

Necmeddin’s PhD thesis examines the Ottoman polymath Ismail Gelenbevi (d. 1205/1791), with a particular focus on his metaphysical, ontological, and epistemological debates, including the discussions on external vs mental existence, the theory of nafs al-amr, and the concepts of unqualified vs proper existence. His broader research focuses on Islamic Philosophy, particularly in the post-Razian and Ottoman periods. 

Muhammad Kazi is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.

His PhD thesis focuses on Qur’anic prophetology and seeks to offer a comprehensive historical-critical study of the Prophet Muhammad’s exemplariness in the Qur’an. Centred on Q 33:21, it traces how the Prophet is framed as a moral and spiritual exemplar across Meccan and Medinan texts.

Yaqub Muslim Eneborg is a Keeling Scholar and MPhil candidate at the faculty of Philosophy, UCL. He is also enrolled for the PhD at UCL commencing in 2025.

Yaqub’s primary research interests are in language, psychology, and metaphysics, in both the Ancient Greek and Islamic intellectual traditions. His MPhil thesis focuses on Aristotle’s theory of signification in the De Interpretatione.

Talhas Bozkurt is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge.

Talha’s research examines the conceptual understandings of the Islamic educator by engaging foundational sources and seminal figures within the Islamic intellectual tradition. The conceptual model that is formulated from this textual analysis is compared against empirical insights gathered from key participants, including academic scholars, teacher educators, and classroom teachers. The study synthesises both theoretical and empirical insights to formulate an authentic and consensual model of the Islamic educator that is grounded in an Islamic paradigm whilst remaining responsive to contemporary educational practices and real-world insights.

Zainab Ahmed Eneborg is a postgraduate student currently enrolled on the MA in Philosophy at UCL.

Zainab is an aspiring Islamic scholar and philosophy student with a background in both traditional and academic studies.

Malaika is presently reading for a BA in English at Oriel College, University of Oxford. In addition to her undergraduate studies, She is a keen student of the Islamic intellectual tradition.

Sheharyar Hasan is a researcher in the field of Ashʿarī kalām argumentation.

His thesis investigates the writings of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 1111). Particularly, by exploring Ghazālī’s works on kalām, manṭiq and taṣawwuf, the thesis explores the following question: According to Ghazālī, is it truly possible for man to know God?