Current & Recent Students

Prof. Roja Fazaeli

Farah Mokhtarizadeh: Islamic Feminism and Transnational Feminist Solidarities in Iran and Afghanistan
Maryam Hosseinkhah: Execution of Women under Islamic Law: Iran and Afghanistan
David Compton: Sufism in the Sensual Poetry of Ibn al-ʿArabi’s Tarjumān al-ashwāq (Interpreter of Desires) Ross Holder: Rights of Religious Minorities in China
Namaan Salman:

Ali Selim: An Islamic Theory of Coexistence (Ph.D.)
Stephen Patten: Suicide or Martyrdom: Studying the Relationship between Islamic Beliefs and Modern Suicide Attacks (M.Litt)

Robert Stratton: The Origins of Biblical Gehenna in the Near Eastern Environment
Ronald Geobey: The Exodus Tradition and its Egyptian Background
Magdalena Szklarz: The Book of Job
Audrey Barnett: The Eighth Century Prophets and the Near East
Costanza Ficorella: The Kingdom of Edom and Biblical Tradition
Heidi O’Rourke: A “Jewish” Temple in Egypt

Jason Silverman: Persian and Apocalyptic: The Transition from Prophecy to Apocalyptic in Second Temple Judaism (Ph.D.)
Killian McAleese: The New Moon, Sacred Time, and the Boundaries of Ancient Israelite Identity (Ph.D.)

Natalie Wynn: Jewish Activism and inter-communal relations, in Ireland 1840-1913
Emily Parker: The figure of Joseph in the writings of Philo of Alexandria
Stephen Murray: Ireland's Attitude towards the State of Israel (1947-1972)
Barbara de Bergin: Herod the Great: The Judean King in his Near Eastern Context
Paul Perry: The Function of Biblical Figures in the Book of Hebrews and Hellenistic Judean Texts
David Simmonds: A Re-Examination of the Limerick Boycott of 1904

John Murray Watson: Translation for Transformation: André Chouraqui and His Translations of the Gospels