Publications of Mona Hassan
%% Books
@book{fds310561,
Author = {Hassan, M},
Title = {Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional
History},
Pages = {408 pages},
Publisher = {Princeton University Press},
Year = {2017},
ISBN = {9780691166780},
url = {http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10894.html},
Abstract = {In the United States and Europe, the word “caliphate”
has conjured historically romantic and increasingly
pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate’s significance
in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly
understood. This book explores the myriad meanings of the
caliphate for Muslims around the world through the
analytical lens of two key moments of loss in the thirteenth
and twentieth centuries. Through extensive primary-source
research, Mona Hassan explores the rich constellation of
interpretations created by religious scholars, historians,
musicians, statesmen, poets, and intellectuals. Hassan fills
a scholarly gap regarding Muslim reactions to the
destruction of the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad in 1258 and
challenges the notion that the Mongol onslaught signaled an
end to the critical engagement of Muslim jurists and
intellectuals with the idea of an Islamic caliphate. She
also situates Muslim responses to the dramatic abolition of
the Ottoman caliphate in 1924 as part of a longer trajectory
of transregional cultural memory, revealing commonalities
and differences in how modern Muslims have creatively
interpreted and reinterpreted their heritage. Hassan
examines how poignant memories of the lost caliphate have
been evoked in Muslim culture, law, and politics, similar to
the losses and repercussions experienced by other religious
communities, including the destruction of the Second Temple
for Jews and the fall of Rome for Christians. A global
history, Longing for the Lost Caliphate delves into why the
caliphate has been so important to Muslims in vastly
different eras and places.},
Key = {fds310561}
}
%% Papers Published
@article{fds329171,
Author = {Hassan, M},
Title = {Poetic Memories of the Prophet’s Family: Ibn Ḥajar
al-ʿAsqalānī’s Panegyrics for the ʿAbbasid
Sultan-Caliph of Cairo al-Mustaʿīn},
Journal = {Journal of Islamic Studies},
Volume = {29},
Number = {1},
Pages = {1-24},
Publisher = {Oxford University Press (OUP)},
Year = {2018},
Month = {January},
Abstract = {Although Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī is primarily known for
his seminal scholarship in the field of prophetic traditions
or ḥadīth studies, he was also an accomplished poet. In
fact, as this article reveals, one of the poems that Ibn
Ḥajar included in his carefully crafted collection from
the ninth/fifteenth century struck a deep chord of Muslim
memories surrounding a restored Islamic caliphate. Far from
the image of complete apathy to the Cairene ʿAbbasids that
has long been conventional wisdom, Ibn Ḥajar’s panegyric
for al-Mustaʿīn (r. 808–16/1406–14) lauded the
ʿAbbasid caliph’s assumption of the Mamluk sultanate as a
restoration of legitimate rule to the blessed family of the
Prophet (ahl al-bayt). In crafting his poem, Ibn Ḥajar
draws upon a deep reservoir of devotional love for the
Prophet’s family in the late Mamluk era, embodied by
al-Mustaʿīn as the descendant of the Prophet’s uncle
al-ʿAbbās, and upon a dynamic and evolving Islamic legal
tradition on matters of governance. Even though
al-Mustaʿīn’s combined reign as sultan and caliph lasted
only a matter of months, Ibn Ḥajar’s commemoration of it
became a famous piece of cultural lore down through the last
years of the Mamluk Sultanate and past the Ottoman conquest
of Egypt. Through exploring the intertwined histories of Ibn
Ḥajar, al-Mustaʿīn, and their contemporaries, as well as
analysing published and manuscript recensions of Ibn
Hajar’s poetry, topographies of Cairo, Mamluk chancery
documents, and treatises on Islamic law and ḥadīth
literature, this interdisciplinary article elucidates the
religious and socio-political complexity of veneration for
the ʿAbbasid caliphate in the late Mamluk
era.},
Doi = {10.1093/jis/etx064},
Key = {fds329171}
}
@article{fds254799,
Author = {Hassan, M},
Title = {Relations, Narrations, and Judgments: The Scholarly Networks
and Contributions of an Early Female Muslim
Jurist},
Journal = {Islamic Law and Society},
Volume = {22},
Number = {4},
Pages = {323-351},
Year = {2015},
ISSN = {1568-5195},
url = {http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15685195-00224p01},
Abstract = {Through an extensive analysis of early biographical
dictionaries and histories, ḥadīth collections and
commentaries, as well as legal texts, I reconstruct the life
of a female jurist from the third generation of Muslims. It
was through informal networks of kin- ship and scholarship
that ʿAmrah bint ʿAbd al-Raḥmān (d. 106/724)
contributed to the core of Islamic knowledge in ways similar
to her male contemporaries, while she also served as a
resource within the community for the gender-specific
concerns of women. The depth of her knowledge established
ʿAmrah’s narrations as reliable evidence of the Prophet
Muḥammad’s conduct and endowed her own opinions and
deeds with an authoritative weight respected by
contemporaries and subsequent generations of Muslim
scholars.},
Key = {fds254799}
}
@article{fds254802,
Author = {Hassan, M},
Title = {Reshaping Religious Authority in Contemporary Turkey:
State-Sponsored Female Preacher},
Pages = {85-103},
Booktitle = {Women, Leadership and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary
Islamic Authority},
Publisher = {Brill},
Editor = {Bano, M and Kalmbach, H},
Year = {2012},
url = {http://www.brill.nl/women-leadership-and-mosques},
Abstract = {With the active support and intervention of Turkey’s
Directorate of Religious Affairs, state-sponsored female
preachers are establishing a new model of female religious
authority in Turkish society based upon the elevation of
well-trained and certified women to official positions of
religious influence, whereby they are energetically engaged
in (re)shaping the populace’s understanding and
interpretations of Islam.},
Key = {fds254802}
}
@article{fds254803,
Author = {Hassan, M},
Title = {Women at the Intersection of Turkish Politics, Religion, and
Education: The Unexpected Path to Becoming a State-Sponsored
Female Preacher},
Journal = {Comparative Islamic Studies},
Volume = {5},
Number = {1},
Pages = {111-130},
Year = {2011},
ISSN = {1740-7125 (print) & 1747-9681 (online)},
url = {https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/CIS/article/view/7978},
Abstract = {This article elucidates how increased religious educational
opportunities for girls over the past few decades, sparked
by Turkey’s transition from single-party rule to a
multi-party political system, has fostered the development
of state-sponsored female preachers (who are entrusted with
giving mosque sermons and legal responsa) at the same time
that contemporary Turkish politics and the vig- orously
contested place of Islam, Islamic education, and practicing
Muslims in an assertively secular system has impinged upon
and redirected their lives in surprising ways. Analyzed
through the comparative lens of successive generations of
female students, the continuous contestation over the
appropriate place of religion — and particularly its
instruction and social visibility—amid secular state
apparatuses has both opened and contracted professional
opportunities for Turkey’s state-sponsored female
preachers.},
Key = {fds254803}
}
@article{fds254804,
Author = {Hassan, M},
Title = {Women Preaching for the Secular State: Official Female
Preachers (Bayan Vaizler) in Contemporary
Turkey},
Journal = {International Journal of Middle East Studies},
Volume = {43},
Number = {03},
Pages = {451-473},
Publisher = {Cambridge University Press (CUP)},
Year = {2011},
ISSN = {0020-7438},
url = {http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A83N5wuI},
Abstract = {Nearly one-third of Turkey’s official preaching workforce
are women. Their numbers have risen considerably over the
past two decades, fueled by an unforeseen feminization of
higher religious education as well as the Directorate of
Religious Affairs’ attempts to redress its historical
gender imbalances. Created in the early Turkish Republic,
the Directorate is also historically embedded in
(re)defining the appropriate domains and formations of
religion, and the female preachers it now employs navigate
people’s potent fears rooted in memories of this fraught
past. In the various neighborhoods of Istanbul, these
preachers attempt to overcome conservative Muslims’
cautious ambivalence toward the interpretative and
disciplinary powers of a secular state as well as assertive
secularists’ discomfort and suspicion over increasingly
visible manifestations of religiosity. Thus, the activities
of state-sponsored female preachers are inescapably
intertwined with the contestation of religious domains and
authority in the secular Republic of Turkey and demonstrate
an intricate interplay between the politics of religion,
gender, and secularism in contemporary Turkish
society.},
Doi = {10.1017/s0020743811000614},
Key = {fds254804}
}
@article{fds254800,
Author = {Hassan, M},
Title = {Türkische Predigerin (vaize) erteilt eine Fatwa im
Istanbuler Muftiamt},
Pages = {306-306},
Booktitle = {Religionsrecht: Eine Einführung in das jüdische,
christliche und islamische Recht},
Publisher = {Schultthess Verlag},
Editor = {Bollag, D and Bouzar, PB and Mortanges, RPD and Tappenbeck,
C},
Year = {2010},
ISBN = {978-3-7255-6066-0},
url = {http://www.schulthess.com/buchshop/detail/ISBN-9783725560660/Pahud-de-Mortanges-Ren%C3%A9-Bleisch-Bouzar-Petra-Bollag-David-Tappenbeck-Christian-R/Religionsrecht},
Key = {fds254800}
}
@article{fds254801,
Author = {Hassan, M},
Title = {Modern Interpretations and Misinterpretations of a Medieval
Scholar: Apprehending the Political Thought of Ibn
Taymiyyah},
Pages = {338-66},
Booktitle = {Ibn Taymiyyah and His Times},
Publisher = {Oxford University Press},
Editor = {Ahmed, S and Rapoport, Y},
Year = {2010},
ISBN = {9780195478341},
url = {http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ReligionTheology/Islam/?view=usa&ci=9780195478341},
Abstract = {This article overturns widely held perceptions of Ibn
Taymiyya’s views on the caliphate in contemporary
scholarship through a close examination of his Fatawa,
Minhaj al-Sunna, and al-Siyasa al-Shar‘iyya and reveals
Ibn Taymiyya’s juristic attachment and engagement with the
concept of the caliphate as a moral and legal necessity for
the welfare of the Muslim community in the thirteenth and
fourteenth centuries. The article also reflects on how
modern accommodationist and confrontationist Islamist groups
have marshalled Ibn Taymiyya’s work in support of their
widely divergent positions, sometimes well beyond the letter
and spirit of his original contributions.},
Key = {fds254801}
}