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Mona Hassan

Mona Hassan

Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Religious Studies
mona.hassan@duke.edu
Box 90964, Durham, NC 27708-0964
118 Gray Building, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

Poetic Memories of the Prophet’s Family: Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī’s Panegyrics for the ʿAbbasid Sultan-Caliph of Cairo al-Mustaʿīn

Journal Article Journal of Islamic Studies · January 1, 2018 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 caref ... Link to item Cite

Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History

Book · 2017 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 myri ... Link to item Cite

Relations, Narrations, and Judgments: The Scholarly Networks and Contributions of an Early Female Muslim Jurist

Journal Article Islamic Law and Society · 2015 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 ... Link to item Cite

Reshaping Religious Authority in Contemporary Turkey: State-Sponsored Female Preacher

Chapter · 2012 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 wom ... Cite

Women Preaching for the Secular State: Official Female Preachers (Bayan Vaizler) in Contemporary Turkey

Journal Article International Journal of Middle East Studies · 2011 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’ attemp ... Link to item Cite

Women at the Intersection of Turkish Politics, Religion, and Education: The Unexpected Path to Becoming a State-Sponsored Female Preacher

Journal Article Comparative Islamic Studies · 2011 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 p ... Link to item Cite

Modern Interpretations and Misinterpretations of a Medieval Scholar: Apprehending the Political Thought of Ibn Taymiyyah

Chapter · 2010 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 en ... Cite