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Rayhana al-Majnuna (2024)
Other
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)
Other
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)
Other
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.

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

Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide (2024)
Book
Hammond, M. (2024). Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474435796

From the exaggerated emotions of 1930s Egyptian melodrama to the cryptic allegories of late 20th-century Palestinian cinema, Arab World Cinemas guides you through 28 Arabic-language feature films. Written specially for students, the book is split int... Read More about Arab World Cinemas: A Reader and Guide.