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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Smuggling Cuneiform Tablets in Aniseed Bags: Profile of a Sale Made by Elias Gejou to the British Museum in 1896 (2022)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2022). Smuggling Cuneiform Tablets in Aniseed Bags: Profile of a Sale Made by Elias Gejou to the British Museum in 1896. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 32(1), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-667

The British Museum archive preserves hundreds of letters sent by antiquities dealers based in Baghdad who regularly wrote to sell archaeological artefacts to the department of Egyptian and Assyrian antiquities (the former name of today’s Middle East... Read More about Smuggling Cuneiform Tablets in Aniseed Bags: Profile of a Sale Made by Elias Gejou to the British Museum in 1896.

Review of: Wessam Elmeligi, The Poetry of Arab Women from the Pre-Islamic Age to Andalusia (2022)
Journal Article
Hammond, M. Review of: Wessam Elmeligi, The Poetry of Arab Women from the Pre-Islamic Age to Andalusia. Journal of Arabic Literature, 53(1/2), 155-159. https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341441

Introduction (2020)
Book Chapter
Lucas, C., & Manfredi, S. (2020). Introduction. In C. Lucas, & S. Manfredi (Eds.), Arabic and contact-induced change (1-33). Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3744501

Arabic and contact-induced change (2020)
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Lucas, C., & Manfredi, S. (Eds.). (2020). Arabic and contact-induced change. Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3744565

This volume offers a synthesis of current expertise on contact-induced change in Arabic and its neighbours, with thirty chapters written by many of the leading experts on this topic. Its purpose is to showcase the current state of knowledge regarding... Read More about Arabic and contact-induced change.

Contact and the expression of negation (2020)
Book Chapter
Lucas, C. (2020). Contact and the expression of negation. In C. Lucas, & S. Manfredi (Eds.), Arabic and contact-induced change (643-667). Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3744559

Maltese (2020)
Book Chapter
Lucas, C., & Čéplö, S. (2020). Maltese. In C. Lucas, & S. Manfredi (Eds.), Arabic and contact-induced change (265-302). Language Science Press. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3744525

The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume II: Patterns and Processes (2020)
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Breitbarth, A., Lucas, C., & Willis, D. (2020). The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume II: Patterns and Processes. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199602544.001.0001

This is the second book in a two-volume comparative history of negation in the languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. It identifies typical developments found repeatedly in the histories of different languages and explores their origins, as well... Read More about The History of Negation in the Languages of Europe and the Mediterranean. Volume II: Patterns and Processes.

Reassessing the “casus pendens”: a case study of Old Babylonian omen protases and apodoses (2019)
Journal Article
Ait Said-Ghanem, N. (2019). Reassessing the “casus pendens”: a case study of Old Babylonian omen protases and apodoses. Revue d'Assyriologie et d'archéologie orientale, 2018/1(112), 91-101. https://doi.org/10.3917/assy.112.0091

The present article proposes a reassessment of the “casus pendens” categorisation based on Arabic grammatical theory and its focus on sentence structure. Structures traditionally described as ‘casus pendens’ sentences, abbreviated here as nom + nom-s... Read More about Reassessing the “casus pendens”: a case study of Old Babylonian omen protases and apodoses.

Subverting Scripture by Parascriptural Works in Medieval Eastern and Western Christian Dualism (2018)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2018). Subverting Scripture by Parascriptural Works in Medieval Eastern and Western Christian Dualism. In M. Blidstein, S. Ruzer, & D. Stökl Ben Ezra (Eds.), Scriptures, Sacred Traditions, and Strategies of Religious Subversion (203-217). Mohr Siebeck

The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha (2018)
Journal Article
Stoyanov, Y. (2018). The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha. Scrinium Сцриниум (Sankt-Peterburg. Print) (Sankt-Peterburg. Print), 14(1), 334-350. https://doi.org/10.1163/18177565-00141P23

The study of the Old Slavonic pseudepigrapha has assumed wider significance in wider areas of Jewish and Christian religious history after recent research has indicated their importance for the investigation of early Jewish and Christian apocalyptici... Read More about The Debate on Medieval Western Christian Dualism through the Prism of Slavonic Pseudepigrapha.

Esotericism and Visionary Mysticism in Medieval Byzantine and Slavonic Orthodox Pseudepigraphic and Heretical Literature (2018)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2018). Esotericism and Visionary Mysticism in Medieval Byzantine and Slavonic Orthodox Pseudepigraphic and Heretical Literature. In N. Radulović (Ed.), Esotericism, Literature and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe (13-29). University of Belgrade

Gnosis and “Gnosticism” in Alevi and Bektāşī Syncretism. Disputed Origins and New Directions for Research (2016)
Book Chapter
Stoyanov, Y. (2016). Gnosis and “Gnosticism” in Alevi and Bektāşī Syncretism. Disputed Origins and New Directions for Research. In M. A. Amir-Moezzi, M. De Cillis, D. De Smet, & O. Mir-Kasimov (Eds.), L'Ésotérisme shi'ite, ses racines et ses prolongements Shi'i Esotericism: Its Roots and Developments (723-742). Belgium. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.BEHE-EB.4.01193