Professor Nicolai Sinai Awarded European Research Council Grant

We are delighted to report that Professor of Islamic Studies and Fellow of Pembroke College, Professor Nicolai Sinai, has received a Consolidator Grant of over £1.5m from the European Research Council (ERC) to fund a project titled Qur'anic Commentary: An Integrative Paradigm (QuCIP), to commence on 1 October 2018. The project’s ambition is to present a pioneering proof of concept for an integrative commentarial approach that does justice to three core dimensions of the Qur’an. Please click here for a full report from Pembroke College.

There are two postdoctoral positions yet to be filled for this project through an open search, for an April 2019 start. These positions will be advertised in due course.