Sona Grigoryan

Sona is a historian of the Abbasid era of Arab and Muslim history with a Ph.D. in History/Medieval Studies (Central European University, 2018).

Her doctoral research explored notions of unbelief and freethinking in the writings of the eleventh-century Syrian poet Abu l-‘Ala’ al-Ma’arri (d.1058). Her first MA research at the Yerevan State University dealt with modern Sunni fundamentalist thought, whereas her second MA research at CEU explored the anti-Christian polemics of the famous Muslim thinker Ibn Taymiyya (d.1328).  Sona's broader fields of research interest are critique of religion, religious polemics, and Muslim-Christian relationships in the Middle Ages.