Laura Hassan

Position:

Associate Faculty Member

Faculty Address:

Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Email:

laura.hassan@ames.ox.ac.ukĀ 

Research Interests:

  • Islamic intellectual history
  • Post-classical Islamic theology and philosophy
  • The Ash'arÄ« tradition
  • The interface of Islamic religion and science

Courses Taught:

  • Theology and Philosophy in the Islamic World

Recent Publications

ā€œLanguage and Human Uniqueness: an Exploration of AbÅ« Muįø„ammad Ibn Mattawayhā€™s (d. after 415/1025) Discussions of Speech and Language.ā€ To be published in the proceedings of the workshop on Islamic Theological Anthropology organised by Shoaib Malik and Jon Hoover (forthcoming 2024).

ā€œRational Speculation as a Cause of Knowledge: Assessing the Ontological Foundations of Classical Ashā€˜ariĢ„ Foundationalism.ā€ To be published with Edinburgh University Press in the proceedings of the First Workshop of the Templeton Foundation funded project ā€œBeyond Foundationalism: New Horizons in Muslim Analytic Theologyā€, led byĀ Ramon Harvey and Safaruk Chowdhury,Ā (forthcoming 2024).Ā 

ā€œAvicennaā€ in Eight Classical Perspectives for Islam and Science, edited by Shoaib Malik, Routledge (forthcoming 2024).

ā€œMiracles as Signs? Revisiting Jesusā€™ Gospel Miracles in the Light of Medieval Muslim Critiqueā€ in Reading the Bible in Islamic Context, edited by Shirin Shafaie, Routledge (forthcoming 2024).

ā€œSayf al-DÄ«n al-ĀmidÄ«ā€™s (d. 631/1233) Kashf al-TamwÄ«hāt fÄ« sharįø„Ā al-Ishārāt wa l-tanbÄ«hāt: Avicennan Philosophy as Currency in the Struggle for Influence.ā€ Journal of Islamic Philosophy, 14 (2023): 65-109. https://doi.org/10.5840/islamicphil2023143

ā€œEpistemic Humility and the Non-Ultimacy of Nature: Perspectives from ā€˜ilm al-kalām.ā€ ASIPT Online Journal (2023).

Review: Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil, byĀ Safaruk Chowdhury (Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press, 2021), vii + 252 pp. Price HB $59.95. Journal of Islamic Studies, Ā 34.1 (2022): 109ā€“114. https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etac051

ā€œIn Pursuit of the Worldā€™s Creator: Fakhr al-DÄ«n al-RāzÄ«ā€™s Discussions of the Origins of the Universe inĀ al-MatĢ£aĢ„lib al-ā€˜Ä€liyaā€. Res Philosophica, 98.2 (2021): 233-259. https://doi.org/10.11612/resphil.2042

ā€œSense Perception in Sayf al-DÄ«n al-ĀmidÄ«'s RumÅ«z al-KunÅ«z: a Theologian's Encounter with Avicennan Psychology.ā€ In Philosophical Problems in Sense Perception: Testing the Limits of Aristotelianism. Edited by David Bennett and Juhana Toivanen. Geneva: Springer, 2021.

Ashā€˜arism encounters Avicennism: Sayf al-DÄ«n al-ĀmidÄ« on Creation, Piscataway: Gorgias Press (2020; revised PhD thesis). Won the Gorgias Press Classical Islamic World Book Prize.

Review: Aydogan Kars: Unsaying God: Negative Theology in Medieval Islam (AAR Academy Series.) XII, 344 pp. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. Ā£64. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 83.2 (2020): 338-340.

Ā ā€œal-ĀmidÄ«, Sayf al-DÄ«n.ā€ In Oxford Islamic Studies Online, (June 2019).

Ā ā€œThe encounter of falsafaĀ and kalāmĀ in Sayf al-DÄ«n al-ĀmidÄ«ā€™s discussion of the Atom: Asserting traditional boundaries, questioning traditional doctrines.ā€ In Polyvocia SOAS Postgraduate Research Journal (February 2014).

Audiovisual Content

Istanbul Islamic Studies Faculty, January 2023: "At the Interface of Religion and Science: Insights from Ibn Sīnā".

Dr. Laura Hassan, What Can Avicenna Teach Us About the Relation Between Science and Religion?

Dr. Laura Hassan, What Can Avicenna Teach Us About the Relation Between Science and Religion? International Academic Talks.

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Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies and Gorgias Press: The Authorā€™s Voice, December 2021:Ā Hosted by Professor Sabine Schmidtke

Tehran Islamic Studies Monitor, March 2021: Discussion with Dr Salimeh Maghsoudlou on my monograph, hosted by Dr Mohsen Feyzbakhsh of the University of Tehran.

Ashā€˜arism Encounters Avicennism: Sayf Al-DÄ«n Al-ĀmidÄ« (d. 631/1233) on Creation - Laura Hassan

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