Barakat Trust
The Barakat Trust offers seven grant categories, each with its own application form and specific criteria.
A1 – Barakat International Studentship: a scholarship of up to £25,000 for a student from the Islamic world already accepted on a taught Masters course in a subject relevant to Islamic art or architecture.
A2 – Postgraduate Student & Early Career Award: an upper limit of £2,500 towards costs of travel for research, open to early career scholars on topics relating to the history of art, archaeology and conservation, among others.
A3 – Barakat Major Awards: an upper limit of £10,000 for fieldwork, conservation, exhibition or training projects, for scholars attached to research institutions, curators, and heritage professionals.
A4 – Iradj Bagherzade Publication Grant: an upper limit of £6,000 towards a major publication on the history of the art, architecture or material culture of the Islamic world before 1920, the archaeological investigation of the Islamic world, and the conservation of artefacts, buildings and material culture produced in or for the Islamic world before 1920.
B1 – Barakat Senior Scholar: a scholarship of £10,000 to enable an established scholar to reside in Oxford for three months to carry out a specific research programme and deliver a lecture.
B2 – Barakat Postdoctoral Scholarship: £20,000 for a post-doctoral scholar from the Islamic world for a nine-month residency in Oxford to carry out a research programme on Islamic art or architecture, or to prepare research for publication.
B3 – Barakat Oxford Masters Studentship: a studentship covering one year’s fees for a student from the Islamic world already accepted by the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies of the University of Oxford to read for an MSt or MPhil in Islamic Art and Architecture.
