The Revival

A private invitation to support a rare revival of Islamic scholarship.

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Proposal & essays

The scholarship itself, on paper: the research proposal awarded a rare 40/40 by Oxford’s academic review panel, and an essay showing the analytical rigour Imran brings to the Islamic intellectual tradition.

The DPhil proposal

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The DPhil Research Proposal

“Ibn Taymiyya’s doctrine of jihad, its place in medieval Islamic legal thought and its subsequent reception” — the proposal awarded a rare set of full marks (40/40) by Oxford’s academic review panel, setting out how a more plural and humanitarian classical tradition can be recovered without apologetics.

PDF · 8 pages · November 2025
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“An exemplar for future work — by the philological, analytical and historical scholarship standards it sets.” — Imran Fazal, Islamic Scholar

Scholarly essays

A Scholarly Writing Sample

An excerpt of Imran’s philosophical scholarship on Descartes’ Meditations — the precision of conceptual analysis he honed at Oxford and now brings to bear on the classical Arabic tradition.

PDF · 6 pages
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