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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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

The Lonely Nerd (2022)
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(2022). The Lonely Nerd. Warwick

This is the twenty-second issue of Exchanges, published in August 2022. This is our fourth special issue focussing on cultural experiences around the theme of the lonely nerd. Developed in collaboration with scholars from the Universities of Oxford a... Read More about The Lonely Nerd.

Lyrics of Ascent: Poetry and the Platonic Tradition – An Anthology (2022)
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Sperl, S., & Dedes, Y. (2022). Lyrics of Ascent: Poetry and the Platonic Tradition – An Anthology. London

Though designed primarily to complement the published volume, the Online Anthology Lyrics of Ascent is intended to go beyond the scope of the book by including a selection of languages and poems of relevance to our subject which the book does not cov... Read More about Lyrics of Ascent: Poetry and the Platonic Tradition – An Anthology.

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

Constant fear of ostracism (2021)
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Zlazli, M. Constant fear of ostracism

This chapter consists of my autoethnographic narrative, including diary entries, which delineates what it feels like to live as an Indigenous person whose community is under ongoing cultural assimilation, followed by its analysis. The main issues ide... Read More about Constant fear of ostracism.