MPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies in Arabic Studies

The Arabic Studies MPhil pathway is a one-year course primarily for students who intend to go on to do a PhD in Arabic. It is designed for highly motivated future researchers who have a substantial undergraduate background in Arabic studies or related fields but need more exposure to topic-specific or discipline-based analysis and more exposure to primary source language(s) and research skills. At the end of the MPhil programme, students will be expected to have acquired a good knowledge of the general scholarship on Pre-Modern Middle Eastern culture(s) and developed the ability to formulate original research questions and produce a well-constructed, argument to answer them, in the form of an independent piece of research based on the use of primary and secondary sources.