Mohammad Magout receives Prize

Our Senior Researcher Mohammad Magout has received the Katharina-Winscheid-Prize at the Annual Reception of the Research Academy of Leipzig University in January 2018.

This prize is given to a doctoral researcher at the Academy, who completed an outstanding dissertation under special circumstances and who deserves recognition for promoting gender equality and family-friendliness in the research environment. Mohammad Magout is the first male researcher to receive this prize.

Mohammad completed his dissertation "Between Religion and Culture: Academic Discourse and Religious Subjectivity at Two Nizari Ismaili Institutions for Islamic Studies in London" in 2016.

Interview with Mohammad (German)