The Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies is pleased to announce its Annual PhD Dissertation Award competition. Students who have completed English-language dissertations in any field of Islamic Studies in or after 2025 are eligible to apply. Authors must submit their theses via email to the Institute’s Director of Research Professor Cyrus Zargar (czargar@tokatinstitute.org) by no later than January 1, 2027. Each submission must be accompanied by a letter of nomination from the author’s main dissertation advisor, which the advisor should submit to Professor Zargar in a separate email. Submissions will be evaluated by a committee of senior scholars in Islamic Studies and the winning entry will be awarded a cash prize of $1000.

2026 - TIAIS’ Inaugural Dissertation Award Winner

The Tokat Institute for Advanced Islamic Studies is pleased to announce Dr. Rami Koujah as the recipient of its inaugural Dissertation Award for his Princeton University dissertation, “Rights, Responsibility, and the Legal Construction of the Human: An Intellectual History of Personhood in Islamic Law.”
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