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| Publications of Mona Hassan :chronological alphabetical by type listing:%% @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}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jis/etx064}, 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} } @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} } @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} } | |
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