All Outputs (10)

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.

Women in the Pre-modern Arabic Islamic Tradition (2024)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2024). Women in the Pre-modern Arabic Islamic Tradition. In L. Jammal (Ed.), Mi'at mubdi'a wa-mubdi'a (101 Creative Women). Abu Dhabi Language Centre

The Kiss in Egyptian Film Language of the 1940s (2020)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2020). The Kiss in Egyptian Film Language of the 1940s. In F. Lagrange, & C. Savina (Eds.), Les Mots du désir : La langue de l’érotisme arabe et sa traduction. Diacritiques Éditions

Al-Khansa': Representing the First-Person Feminine (2020)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2020). Al-Khansa': Representing the First-Person Feminine. In K. Seigneurie, & C. Chism (Eds.), A Companion to World Literature, Volume 2: 601 CE to 1450 (1059-1071). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118635193.ctwl0085

The seventh‐century Arabic poet al‐Khansaʾ (al‐Khansāʾ) composed lamentations that simultaneously celebrate patriarchal values and endow the female voice with a formidable subjective agency. This chapter contemplates the construction of such an elegi... Read More about Al-Khansa': Representing the First-Person Feminine.

The Foul-Mouthed Faḥla: Obscenity and Amplification in Early Women's Invective (2014)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2014). The Foul-Mouthed Faḥla: Obscenity and Amplification in Early Women's Invective. In A. Talib, M. Hammond, & A. Schippers (Eds.), The Rude, the Bad and the Bawdy: Essays in honour of Professor Geert Jan van Gelder (254-265). Gibb Memorial Trust

'If only al-Barraq could see': Violence and Voyeurism in an Early Modern Reformulation of the Pre-Islamic Call to Arms (2013)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2013). 'If only al-Barraq could see': Violence and Voyeurism in an Early Modern Reformulation of the Pre-Islamic Call to Arms. In H. Kennedy (Ed.), Warfare and Poetry in the Middle East (215-240). I.B. Tauris

From Phantasia to Paronomasia: Image-Evocation and the Double Entendre in Khalil Hawi's 'The Mariner and the Dervish' (2009)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2009). From Phantasia to Paronomasia: Image-Evocation and the Double Entendre in Khalil Hawi's 'The Mariner and the Dervish'. In G. J. van Gelder, & M. Hammond (Eds.), Takhyil: the Imaginary in Classical Arabic Poetics (274-286). E.J.W. Gibb Memorial Trust

Qasida, Marthiya and Différance (2008)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2008). Qasida, Marthiya and Différance. In M. Hammond, & D. Sajdi (Eds.), Transforming Loss into Beauty: Essays on Arabic Literature and Culture in Honor of Magda Al-Nowaihi (142-184). American University in Cairo Press

He Desires Her? Situating Nazhūn’s muwashshaḥa in an androgynous aesthetic of courtly love (2006)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2006). He Desires Her? Situating Nazhūn’s muwashshaḥa in an androgynous aesthetic of courtly love. In E. Emery (Ed.), Muwashshaḥ: Proceedings of the International Conference on Arabic and Hebrew Strophic Poetry and its Romance Parallels (141-156). RN Books

Literature, 9th to 15th Century (2003)
Book Chapter
Hammond, M. (2003). Literature, 9th to 15th Century. In S. Joseph, A. Najmabadi, J. Peteet, S. Shami, J. Siapno, & J. I. Smith (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, vol. 1: Methodologies, Paradigms and Sources (42-50). Brill