School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics

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Qualifications
PhD Candidate (SOAS, University of London), MSc (University of Edinburgh), BA (University of Washington)
Email address
684317@soas.ac.uk
Internal Supervisors
Professor Hugh N Kennedy

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Zhicheng is a PhD student at SOAS, University of London.

Before joining SOAS, he obtained his master’s degree on Middle Eastern Studies and Arabic from University of Edinburgh. He is from Nanchang, a beautiful riverside city in southern China. He greatly enjoys reading and traveling.

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Abbasid Iraq, Sufism, Shiism, Abbasid urbanization

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