The Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law (CIMEL) is a research centre of the SOAS School of Law. Founded in 1990, CIMEL is dedicated to building bridges and the mutual exchange of ideas and legal approaches between western academics and practitioners and colleagues in Muslim majority countries ...

The following catalogues can help you locate Special Collections material you may wish to use. If you are unsure of what you are looking for, you can also explore our collections by region.If you are interested in a particular collection, you can also browse the …

The Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions offers a CSJR Postgraduate Student Bursary in Japanese Religions to be held at SOAS, University of London.. The total value of the scholarship is £5,000 for one year for full-time or part-time programmes, providing a contribution towards fees.

Special Collections, SOAS Library makes available the Library's collection of archives, manuscripts, and rare books relating to Africa, Asia, the Middle East and beyond.. Archive collections. Our archive collections include original unpublished primary sources, including correspondence, minutes, diaries, reports, photographs, slides, maps, plans, posters, leaflets, drawings, engravings, film ...

Helping researchers explore our archives and manuscript collections by particular regions, subjects or themes.

The Centre for Law in Asia (CeLIA) was originally established in 1988 as the Centre for East Asian Law (CEAL). Based at the School of Law, Gender and Media, CeLIA brings together legal expertise on South Asian, South-East Asian, East Asian, and Central Asian laws.

Our online learning programmes have different subject timetables. Please review the relevant Centre/Department of study for more information. This table shows key dates for the Centre for Development, Environment and Policy, Centre for Development Studies, Centre for Gender Studies, Centre for Global Media and Communications, and Centre for …

The College of Development, Economics and Finance intervenes in and engages with the key economic, social, and financial challenges of our time, focusing on the regions of the Middle East, Africa, and Asia without losing sight of global interdependencies.

The College of Humanities focus is on learning from, and seeking to understand the important and varied knowledge generated through creative arts, culture, history, linguistics, literature, media, philosophies and religions.

The Centre for Ottoman Studies is an interdisciplinary centre dedicated to the study of the Ottoman Empire and its legacies in post-Ottoman societies. Building upon the rich history of scholarly engagements with the Ottoman Empire and its successors at SOAS, the Centre’s primary purposes are to ...