Dr Qurboniev’s resarch interests include Fatimids and Ismaili history, cultural production and writing in Islamicate languages, and the broader history of the Samarqand to Zaragoza region.
Current research and forthcoming projects
He is currently working on the creation of a corpus of Ismaili texts in Arabic and Persian for digital analysis. His current projects include a monograph on the early Fāṭimid history and a stylometric analysis of the Rasāʾil Ikhwān al-ṢafāʾFrom Arabic, lit. ‘Brethren of Purity’, a group of learned scholars who were based in Basra and Baghdad around the last quarter of the t10th century CE. It is more….
