Fozia Bora
Dr Fozia Bora is a lecturer in Middle Eastern History and Islamic History at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds. Her research and teaching is concerned primarily with Arabic history and historiography, in particular, Arabic historiography of the 6th-9th Islamic centuries.
Her 2015 article "Did Salah al-Din Destroy the Fatimids' Books? An Historiographical Enquiry", published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, won the Royal Asiatic Society's Staunton Prize, while her 2019 Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World, a study of Taʾrīkh al-duwal wa-l-mulūk by Ibn al-Furāt, was characterised by its first reviewer as 'a truly impressive piece of scholarship'.Publications
Bora's publications include:
- Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World: The Value of Chronicles as Archives ,
- A Mamluk Historian's Holograph. Messages from a Musawwada of Tarīkh, Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume 3, Number 2, 2012, pp. 119.
- Article for The Conversation : 'Discovery of ‘oldest’ Qur'an fragments could resolve enigmatic history of holy text'.
