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Hafsa bint al-Hajj (2025)
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Hammond, M. Hafsa bint al-Hajj. Cham

Hafsa bint al-Hajj was an Arabic poet of twelfth-century al-Andalus. Although she is associated with the city of Granada, her name links her to the village of Rakuna, as she is often called Hafsa bint al-Hajj al-Rakuniyya or al-Rukuniyya. She compose... Read More about Hafsa bint al-Hajj.

Sara al-Halabiyya (2025)
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Hammond, M. Sara al-Halabiyya. Cham

Sara bint Ahmad ibn ʿUthman ibn al-Salah al-Halabiyya was an Arabic poet and scholar of the second half of the thirteenth century who was of Syrian origin but who made her career in al-Andalus and North Africa. She traveled extensively, dedicating ma... Read More about Sara al-Halabiyya.

Rayhana al-Majnuna (2024)
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Hammond, M. Rayhana al-Majnuna. Cham

Rayhana al-Majnuna was an eighth-century black Muslim ascetic and Arabic poet from the city of Ubulla in modern-day Iraq. Her vigorous devotional practices, such as excessive weeping, expressions of intense fear of God, and praying throughout the nig... Read More about Rayhana al-Majnuna.

Taqiyya bint Ghayth al-Suriyya (2024)
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Hammond, M. Taqiyya bint Ghayth al-Suriyya. Cham

Taqiyya bint Ghayth al-Suriyya (1111–1184) was an Arabic poet of Fatimid Egypt who lived into the Ayyubid era. Coming from a family of prominent Islamic scholars, she trained as a traditionist, or as a transmitter of hadith (the sayings of the Prophe... Read More about Taqiyya bint Ghayth al-Suriyya.

Rayhana 'The Mad': Her Persona and Poetry (2024)
Journal Article
Hammond, M., & van Gelder, G. J. (2024). Rayhana 'The Mad': Her Persona and Poetry. Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East, 101(2), 409-438. https://doi.org/10.1515/islam-2024-0022

: This article on the intriguing second-/eighth-century Iraqi Muslim ascetic poet Rayḥāna al-Majnūna, or Rayḥāna “The Mad,” consists of two parts: (1) a study contextualizing her persona and corpus and arguing that her historical and folkloric identi... Read More about Rayhana 'The Mad': Her Persona and Poetry.

Religion, Authority, and Morality Codes in Arab Cinema (2024)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2024). Religion, Authority, and Morality Codes in Arab Cinema. In N. Mellor (Ed.), Routledge Handbook on Arab Cinema (227-241). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003302025-22

This chapter will provide an analytical survey of the ways in which religion and its theological, legal, and symbolic codes inform cinematic content and aesthetics in the Arab world. It will begin with an account of the skepticism with which cinemati... Read More about Religion, Authority, and Morality Codes in Arab Cinema.

Shuhda al-Katiba (2024)
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Hammond, M. Shuhda al-Katiba. Cham

Shuhda bint Abi Nasr Ahmad ibn al-Farj, commonly known as Shuhda al-Katiba, was a leading transmitter of hadith—or narrations of the sayings and actions of the Prophet Muhammad—in twelfth-century Baghdad. Many prominent Islamic scholars studied under... Read More about Shuhda al-Katiba.

Qasmuna Bint Ismaʿil (2023)
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Hammond, M. Qasmuna Bint Ismaʿil. Cham

Qasmuna Bint Ismaʿil was a poet who lived in Muslim Iberia (al-Andalus) in the twelfth century CE and whose scant textual legacy has disproportionately captured the imagination of literary historians for two reasons: First, she was Jewish and, as an... Read More about Qasmuna Bint Ismaʿil.

al-Khansaʾ (Tumadir Bint ʿAmr) (2023)
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Hammond, M. al-Khansaʾ (Tumadir Bint ʿAmr). Cham

al-Khansaʾ was a remarkable poet of seventh-century Arabia whose life and career spanned the Jahiliyya (or pre-Islamic era) and the coming of Islam, making her what is termed a mukhadrama. al-Khansaʾ’s collected poetry, or diwan, circulated widely in... Read More about al-Khansaʾ (Tumadir Bint ʿAmr).

Mahsati Ganjavi (2023)
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Hammond, M. Mahsati Ganjavi. Cham

Mahsati Ganjavi was a pioneer of the Persian quatrain (rubaʿi) who flourished in the eleventh or, as is more likely, the twelfth century CE. Her surname suggests she hailed from the city of Ganja, in modern-day Azerbaijan. After her fourteenth-centur... Read More about Mahsati Ganjavi.

Breaking the Silence: Pain, Torture, Resistance and Bearing Witness in the writings of Palestinian Prisoners of War and Administrative Detainees (1967 2004) (2023)
Thesis
Boulos, T. Breaking the Silence: Pain, Torture, Resistance and Bearing Witness in the writings of Palestinian Prisoners of War and Administrative Detainees (1967 2004). (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores theoretical approaches underpinning prison writing with a focus on the writings of Palestinian prisoners of war and administrative detainees who mainly spent many years in incarceration and who started writing in the wake of thei... Read More about Breaking the Silence: Pain, Torture, Resistance and Bearing Witness in the writings of Palestinian Prisoners of War and Administrative Detainees (1967 2004).

al-Khansāʾ (2022)
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Hammond, M. (2022). al-Khansāʾ. Leiden

Social Change through Power of Imagination in Arabic Theatre: How the Raḥbānī Brothers’ Works Empowered their Audiences (2021)
Thesis
Albiti, H. Social Change through Power of Imagination in Arabic Theatre: How the Raḥbānī Brothers’ Works Empowered their Audiences. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The Raḥbānī Brothers are known as pioneers of musical theatre in the 20th century in Lebanon and the wider Arab region: they introduced a theatrical form integrating theatre, music, singing, dancing, acting, performing arts and poetry. This fusion ca... Read More about Social Change through Power of Imagination in Arabic Theatre: How the Raḥbānī Brothers’ Works Empowered their Audiences.

A Critical Study of First-Person Narrative in Modern Persian Novels (2021)
Thesis
Farigam, N. A Critical Study of First-Person Narrative in Modern Persian Novels. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis is a critical study of the first-person narrative in modern Persian novels. To my knowledge, the first-person narrative, which I define in this work as one of the thorniest issues in literary criticism in Iran, has never been thoroughly d... Read More about A Critical Study of First-Person Narrative in Modern Persian Novels.