6. JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) Research Fellows for the Academic Year 2000-2001

Japanese Researchers

- SHIMOYAMA Tomoko (The University of Tokyo) with Unit 1

Topic: Religious Powers in 12th-Century Iran

- IWASAKI Erina (Hitotsubashi University) with Unit 3

Topic: Case Studies of Laborers in Southern Tunisia

- ARAI Yuji (The University of Tokyo) with Unit 4

Topic: Structural Principles of Urban Spaces in the Middle East

Foreign Researchers

- Rahal BOUBRIK with Unit 2

Topic: A Study on the Relationship Between the Traditional Men of Religion and the Political Power in Mauritania

- Muhammad Sabri Muhammad YUSUF (Helwan University) with Unit 2

Topic: Knowledge and Thought in Egypt During the Ottoman Period

- Brigitte MARINO (Institut Fran溝is dﾕEtudes Arabes de Damas) with Unit 5

Topic: Cities, Territories in Ottoman Syria