Fozia Bora

{{Short description|Lecturer in Middle Eastern history}}

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Fozia Bora is a lecturer in Middle Eastern history and Islamic history at the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies at the University of Leeds. Her research and teaching is concerned primarily with Arabic history and historiography, in particular, Arabic historiography of the 6th-9th Islamic centuries (12th-15th centuries CE).{{Cite web|url=https://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/profile/20046/1676/fozia_bora|title=Profile - Faculty of Arts - University of Leeds - Fozia Bora|last=Leeds|first=University of|website=www.leeds.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-04-16|archive-date=16 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416125207/https://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/profile/20046/1676/fozia_bora|url-status=dead}} In 2021, she was named as one of the university's 'Women of Achievement'.'[https://forstaff.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/7364/recognising_excellence_our_women_of_achievement_2021 Recognising excellence: Our Women of Achievement 2021]' (11 March 2021).

Her 2015 article "Did Salah al-Din Destroy the Fatimids' Books? An Historiographical Enquiry", published in the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, won the Royal Asiatic Society's Staunton Prize,{{Cite web|url=http://royalasiaticsociety.org/the-societys-prizes-and-awards/|title=The Society's Prizes and Awards – Royal Asiatic Society|website=royalasiaticsociety.org|language=en-US|access-date=2017-04-16|archive-date=16 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416222807/http://royalasiaticsociety.org/the-societys-prizes-and-awards/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.leeds.ac.uk/arts/news/article/4147/dr_fozia_bora_wins_the_staunton_prize|title=Dr Fozia Bora wins The Staunton Prize|last=[LHRI]|first=Vicky Smith|website=www.leeds.ac.uk|language=en|access-date=2017-04-16}} while her 2019 Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World, a study of Taʾrīkh al-duwal wa-l-mulūk (The History of Dynasties and Kings) by Ibn al-Furāt, was characterised by its first reviewer as 'a truly impressive piece of scholarship'.Nicholas Morton, review of Fozia Bora, History in the Medieval Islamic World: The Value of Chronicles as Archives (London: I.B. Tauris, 2019), {{ISBN|978-1-7845-3730-2}}, Al-Masāq: Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean, 31 (2019), 367-69 {{doi|10.1080/09503110.2019.1662598}}.