Generate a tailored SOP for Dr. Claire Gallien. Improve your application with a focused, well-structured draft.
Claire Gallien is a Senior Research Fellow at the Cambridge Muslim College and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. She received a Professor habilitation from Sorbonne Nouvelle in 2023. Her research focuses on the classification of sciences in the seventeenth and eighteenth-century Islamic world, exploring theological, ethical, and aesthetic dimensions of knowledge. Gallien's work includes the morphing of her research into a monograph titled 'Epistemology of Beauty in Islam: Tartīb al-‘Ulūm', which analyzes the foundations of organization in Islamic sciences during this period. Her research interests encompass Islamic epistemology, Islamic intellectual religious history, Sufism, British early-modern orientalism, and the constitution of Islamic manuscript libraries in early-modern Britain. Additionally, she is engaged in decolonial thinking and translation studies, with fluency in English, French, and Arabic. Gallien has also contributed to the academic community through her expertise as a translator and her involvement in various research projects related to Islamic studies.
Standard postgraduate requirements for Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and related humanities departments.