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

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).

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