Apply Now for Fellowship with Chevening Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Fellowship in UK 2021 (Fully Funded)

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Description

Chevening Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies Fellowship (OCIS) and OCIS Abdullah Gül Fellowship

The Chevening Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies (OCIS) Fellowships are aimed at mid-career academics or professionals who are dedicated to the promotion of academic activities which encourage a more informed understanding of the culture and civilisation of Islam and contemporary Muslim societies.
Fellows will undertake a 6-month period of self-directed research focusing on their own project on the culture and civilisation of Islam and contemporary Muslim societies in a global context.

Fellows will benefit from meeting a multi-disciplinary group of scholars focusing on the Islamic world and have the opportunity to develop contacts with relevant individuals, discuss issues relating to the Islamic world, including Islamic history, classical Islamic sciences, economics and Islamic finance, and the study of Muslims in the West. Fellows will contribute to the Centre’s objective to encourage and promote sustained dialogue and collaboration within the global academic community of the culture and civilisation of Islam and contemporary Muslim societies.

Opportunity Focus Areas:
-Islamic Studies

Specialties

Humanities, Islamic Studies

Eligibilities

Not Specified

Gender

Nationality

Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia

Required Languages

Required Experience

Specific Requirements

Other Requirements

You have to Demonstrate

The potential to rise to a position of leadership and influence

You have to Demonstrate

The personal, intellectual and interpersonal attributes reflecting this potential

Nationality

Be a citizen of the above-listed countries.

You are not eligible if you:

hold British or dual-British citizenship

Other Eligibilities

Not be an employee, a former employee, or relative of an employee (since July 2016) of Her Majesty’s Government (including British embassies/high commissions, the Department for International Development, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, the Ministry of Defence and the Home Office), the British Council, or a staff member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities.