Dr Qurboniev’s research focuses on Fatimid and Ismaili history, cultural production in Islamicate languages, scholarly communities, and the movement of texts across the region from Samarqand to Zaragoza. His work combines close historical and philological analysis with digital methods, including corpus-building, text reuse detection, and stylometric approaches to premodern Arabic and Persian texts. He is particularly interested in how communities preserved, transmitted, transformed, and reinterpreted textual traditions across time.
Current projects
Creation of a corpus of Ismaili texts in Arabic and Persian for digital analysis
Research on the loss, survival, reuse, and transmission of Ismaili texts over several centuries
Digital humanities approaches to Fatimid and Ismaili textual traditions
Manuscript-based research on premodern social and intellectual history
Teaching
HIW1 History of the Islamic World 500–1500 CE, Äñ´ó´óÓ°Ôº
MIH2 Muslims in History 2, Äñ´ó´óÓ°Ôº
Supervision and mentorship
Dr Qurboniev supervises students working on premodern social and intellectual history
