Categories of awards

The Advisory Committee of the Barakat Trust meets each autumn to define the categories and values of awards within which applications may be made, and retains the right to adjust the number and value of awards in the light of funds available, and the quality and quantity of applications received.

A. Grants by competitive application

Senior Scholars

A.1. One Senior Visiting Scholarship of £10,000.00
to enable a senior Muslim scholar from the Islamic world to come to the United Kingdom for three months to carry out a specific programme of research.

Scholars and related projects

A.2. Grants with an upper limit of £1,000 each
towards research trips, projects, documentation, education programmes, exhibitions and publications.

A.3. Applications for assistance of over £1,000 each
to be considered in the light of funds available and the quality and quantity of other applications received.

Conservation

A.4. Two grants with an upper limit of £7,000 each
towards a conservation project or the training of a conservation technician.

Per Diem for Conferences

A.5. Grants with an upper limited of £1,000 each

Publication

A.6. A grant towards the cost of publication of £1,500.

B. Grants for Study in Oxford

B.1. One Post-Doctoral Research Scholarship of £18,000 *
To enable a senior Muslim scholar to spend from October to June in Oxford to carry out a specific programme of research or prepare such research for publication.

*please see the separate guidelines to this grant ,

B.2. One Junior Graduate Scholarship
To cover the second year's fees for a Muslim student already accepted by the Faculty of Oriental Studies to read for an MPhil in Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford.