About
Current Position: PhD Student, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
Research Topic: Creating agricultural knowledge in al-Andalus: the cognitive and social processes underlying the evolution of the discipline.
Supervisor: Amira K. Bennison, Senior Lecturer in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies
Presentations
2010: Borders and Gates or Open Spaces? Knowledge Cultures in the Mediterranean during the 14th and 15th Centuries - Universidad de Sevilla, Seville, December 17-19
2010: Mediterráneos Conference – CCHS-CSIC, Madrid, December 13-15
2010: British Society for the History of Science Postgraduate Conference
2009: Second Cambridge Symposium on Middle Eastern Studies
Previous Work
2004-08: Research on the Early Baghdadi Sufi Abu ‘l-Husayn al-Nuri
I spent several years working on the emergence of Sufism in the central Islamic world, culminating in my MPhil dissertation. My research focused on Abu ‘l-Husayn al-Nuri, a close companion of Junayd, and how his life had been portrayed in the Arabic biographical dictionaries.
Luckyn-Malone, P. (2008). Abu ‘l-Husayn al-Nuri (d. 295/907): His Portrayal in the Arabic Biographical Tradition. MPhil dissertation, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Cambridge. (Unpublished)
2006-08: Executive Director, The Islamic Manuscript Association (Cambridge and Cairo)
Through my work at the Centre of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Cambridge, I joined a small team aiming to establish an international organization dedicated to Islamic manuscripts.