Applicant criteria
- No specific age required
- Both
Opportunity criteria
Opportunity description
The Barakat Fund offers a grant to a Muslim student from the Islamic world who has already been accepted into a master’s program in a subject related to the study of Islamic art, architecture, archeology or material culture.
Benefits
- The scholarship value is up to $20,000.
- The grant may be spent on fees or living expenses or a combination of the two.
- Where a student has been accepted on a two-year course, the grant will initially be awarded for the first year of the course. The grant may be awarded or renewed for the second year of the course, on the condition that the student is able to demonstrate outstanding performance during the first year of the course.
Eligibility criteria
Barakat fund individual and institutional efforts to promote and preserve artistic culture and heritage related to the Islamic world. Individuals applying for grants from The Barakat Trust need to identify an institution to which grant monies can be transferred on their behalf. Barakat cannot make transfers to personal bank accounts, but are strongly committed to the support of individual professional development and projects led by individuals.
Institutions to which funds can be transferred include:
- Registered Charities.
- Registered Community Interest Companies.
- Registered Charitable Incorporated Organizations.
- Social enterprises.
- Education Institution including Universities.
- Museums, Libraries and Archives.
- Companies.
About Barakat Trust:
The Barakat Trust was founded as a UK charity in 1987 by two of its founding trustees, Hamida Alireza and Shahnaz Bagherzade. The Barakat Trust was therefore set up to train, educate and enable new generations of professionals committed to preserving the heritage of the Islamic world, and to provide support and nurture their professional growth. Many of The Trust’s grantees are today leading practitioners and academics in the field.
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