Aslisho Qurboniev

Aslisho Qurboniev is a Research Associate at the Institute of Ismaili Studies in London. Aslisho received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2020 with a dissertation on early Fatimid scholarly culture before joining the KITAB project at AKU-ISMC (2020-2024). He has authored a number of articles on premodern scholarly and writerly culture in the Islamicate world. His current research applies digital methods and manuscript research to tracing dispersed texts in Arabic and Persian with a particular interest in Fatimid and Ismaili libraries.