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# Shiraz Hajiani, PhD

##### hajiani @ islamicate.net

##### Curriculum Vitae

I am scholar of religion and history and am an accomplished educator, researcher, mentor and communicator with over a decade of experience in teaching and advising undergraduates, graduates and continuing education students. I use multi-disciplinary approaches, including digital humanities methodologies, to study and teach religion and history. I specialise in Islamic history and thought, Shiʿism, Ismaili studies and with regional expertise in the study of the Middle East, North Africa, Central and South Asia

### Masters Theses Advised as Preceptor for
Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Chicago

### Academic Year 2014-2015

• Mongol Political Theory of Rashid al-Din
• Patterns of Violence: Warfare and Raiding in Mid-Third Millennium Mesopotamia
• Criminalization of Déjeuneurs in Morocco
• Parallelism and Structure in the Song of Moses (Deut 32:1–43)
• Images of Women During the Islamic Revolution in Iran and Beyond
• Lords, Governors and Kings: Imperialism in Pre-Sargonic Mesopotamia
• Tracking the Trends of Brutality in the Islamic State
• An Assessment of School-to-Work Transitions and Barriers to Employment facing Young University-Educated Female Youth in the Greater Cairo Area

### Academic Year 2013-2014

• Analyzing Non-State Actor Terrorist Groups in a Realist Power Framework: al-Qaeda as a Balancing Actor against the Threat of the United States
• Chen Cheng: A Ming Diplomat to the Timurids - a full Translation of his Xiyu Fanguo Zhi
• Towards an Alternative Secularization: Language and Modernity in Tunisia
• Religion and the Modern State: Mapping Trends in Non-Islamist Discourse in Twentieth-Century Egypt
• Anavatandaṣlar: Motherhood and Kemalist Modernity in Gürbüz Türk Çocuǧu 1926-1936
• Kerygmatic History, the Axial Age, and “The Historian as Theologian”: Marshall Hodgson’s Last Word
• In the Shadow of the Twelfth Imam: Contestation During the Lesser Occultation
• Following the Money: A Study of the United States Legal Framework of the Prohibition of Terrorism Financing through an Assessment of Hezbollah and the IRA
• Streets of Baghdad: The Wars between ʿAyyarun and the Government in Buyid and Seljuq Eras
• Uncovering the Umayyads: Comparing Representations of Abu Sufyan in the Works of al-Tabari, Ibn al-Athir and Ibn ʿAsakir
• The Curious Case of the Black Sheep: A Critical Assessment of the Study of Qara Quyūnlū Turkmen Tribe
• Between Modernization and Centralization: Disciplining the Arab Shiʿa in Basra and Baghdad during the Hamidian Period
• The Zionist Narrative and Jewish DP Immigration Desires After World War II
• Spectacle and Soundscape: Narrative, Authority, and Ethical Formations in the Arab Spring
• The Life and Times of the Dawla Madiniyya
• Imagining Palestine: The Press, Public Sphere and Nationalism in the Second Constitutional Period, 1908-1914
• Hebron, 1929, the Farhud, and Jewish Communities in the Twentieth Century Middle East
• Joining the Caravan of Martyrs: Arab Foreign Fighters in Afghanistan, 1980-1992

### Academic Year 2012-2013

• The Role of Women in the Jordanian Islamic Finance Industry in the 21st Century
• The Status of Algerian Women During the War for Independence
• The New Great Game in Africa: Case Study on Chinese Economic Interests in Libya
• The Sources of Hezbollah Missile Policy
• Standing-in and Standing-out in Haydar Qolī’s Khamseh (BnF suppl. pers. 1029)
• Reforming Female Bodies through Ottoman Dress: Turquerie and the Women’s Rights in the late 18th and early 19th Centuries
• Al-Manar as a Manual for Instruction
• Hagiography in Dialogue with Polemics: Copto-Arabic Vitae in Mamluk Egypt
• Place-making and Ottoman-Inspired Visual Culture in Contemporary Istanbul
• Land, Ideology and Capital: A Recipe for War Between Israel and Lebanon in 1982
• National Saviors or Looming Threat: The Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, 1989-2012
• Leveraging the Red Menace: Nasser, Egyptian Communists, and Costly Signals
• U.S. Embassy Cairo and The Development of 21st Century Public Diplomacy
• Dinshaway and the Formation of the Hero Martyr in Hafiz Ibrahim and Ahmad Shawqi
• From Safavids to Soviets: How the Writing of One Reveals the Other
• The Sign of the Hour: Hezbollah, Jesus, and the Apocalypse
• The Creative Transformation in India and China: Ashige, Zhang Shizhong, and the Varieties of Mystical Experience
• The Manases: An Armenian family in the service of the Ottoman state as court painters and diplomats
• Ijtihad and the Mujtahid in al-Ghazali’s al-Mustasfa
• Hashim b. Hakim’s Kool-Aid and the Khurasanian Affair: al-Muqanna’s Revolt, 775-780

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### hajiani @ islamicate.net