تقرير عن رحلة علمية إلى مركز أكسفورد للدراسات الإسلامية
Report on the visit of Dr. Mazin S. Motabagani
Dr. Motabagani
arrived in Oxford
on the 4th of July 2008. He met with the director of the Centre on
the same day. He joined the staff luncheon while some of the researchers were
still at the centre. He was introduced to them and had a chance to give a brief
summary of his research and short discussion took place. However, another
meeting would take place before his departure with the directors and some of
the researchers.
While at the
centre Dr. Motabaganai visited the Bodleian Library and obtained the necessary
pass where he was able to look at material pertaining to his research.
Dr. Motabagani
seemed well versed in his topic in historical terms as he is familiar with the Scarborough , Hayter and Parker’s reports. These reports
were produced by Government commissions to look into the needs of Britain in the fields of middle East and Oriental Studies. They were
published in the years 1947, 1961 and 1986 respectively.
Moreover while at the Centre he obtained a
vast amount of material and reports from the Higher Education Funding Council
and other British Governments agencies such as the Arts and Humanities Research
Council and Economic and Scientific Research Council.
Dr. Motabagani
looked at the reports and articles published by Brismes (British Society for
Middle Eastern Studies). On major article gave a summary of the proceedings of
the Edinburgh university conference on the Study
of Islam and Middle Eastern Studies at United Kingdom universities.
Dr. Motabagani
interviewed our Deputy Registrar Dr. Basil Mustafa, which gave him an insight
how one of the major Centres in the country functions.
Dr. Motabagani
also visited Middle Eastern Studies Centre at St. Antony College of Oxford
University to meet the Director of the Centre Professor Eugene Rogan and other
Colleagues of the Centre. He also received a copy of the Centre’s report on the
Centre’s fiftieth anniversary. Motabagani has also sent a questionnaire to Dr.
Rogan about the support of the British government to the activities of the
Centre.
To make use of his
stay in England
Dr. Motabagani visited the Faculty of Asian and
Middle Eastern Studies at Cambridge University and met with Professor Amira Bennison, and
visited the University
of Cambridge Library . Dr. Motabagani will also attend a conference
to be held in Manchester University titled” Representing Islam” and attend one
day of the Brismes graduate students conference in London on 8-9 Sept.
Unluckily since
the visit of Dr. Motabagani happened during the summer vacation he could not
meet many researchers in the field to help answer many of the pertaining
questions to his topic.
Finally Dr.
Motabagani was able to make good use of his time while here to obtain good
knowledge of his topic which he feels will be translated into a monograph or
more than one conference paper in the next few months.
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