AMI graduate Adam Ramadhan has attained a highly competitive, funded PhD position at Leiden University in The Netherlands on the ERC Starting Grant project ‘Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900’ led by Dr Edmund Hayes. The project aims to write the first comprehensive social history of the Imamate to address the questions of how, when and why a distinctive Imami Shiʿi Imamate emerged and developed as a set of institutions.
Adam joined AMI in 2018 after first completing a BA (Hons) in Arabic and Islamic Studies at the University of Leeds. At AMI, Adam completed the Hawza Programme which provides students with rigorous training in the critical reading of and engagement with classical Arabic texts across a range of disciplines. During his time at AMI, he also went on to complete an MSt in Islamic Studies and History at the University of Oxford. Prior to his move to Leiden, Adam also worked at AMI in various roles including as Head Librarian of the AMI Library and the Education Manager.
