Hatoon Ajwad Al-Fassi
Biographic Data
| ID | 4153567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hatoon Ajwad Al-Fassi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hatoon Ajwad |
| FAMILY NAME | Al-Fassi |
| SIGNATURE | AL-FASSI H A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Qatar University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9089-3954 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rewriting Women's History in Islam
This paper is an attempt to reflect on the story of Hagar/Hajar, the Egyptian housemaid/slave of Sarah/Sarai, wife/concubine of Abraham/Ibrahim, the father of prophets, who became the mother of a nation and faith. It aims also at understanding what is beyond the narrative given by the Jewish and Islamic accounts of her life. Then the paper will re-read the significance of her representation and symbolism. The questions that this paper raises are:…
A Note on Meccan Women in the Fifteenth Century
The history of women in Arabia is a relatively new and unexplored area of research and the place of women in Mecca (Makkah), Islam’s holiest city, is particularly shrouded in darkness. From the fifteenth century, however, there has been a stream of biographical works ( tabaqat ) that shed much light on the women of the city. This note turns scholarly attention on such fifteenth and sixteenth century works as Taqi al-Din al-Fassi’s (d. 1429) eight…
Saudi Women and Islamic Discourse, Selected Examples of Saudi Feminisms
Saudi women entered the realm of writing and language only half a century ago through the genres of both creative and journalistic prose. In this paper, I shall take the example of four Saudi female writers who represent a wide range of intellectual pluralism that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of state and society, represented in this order by, Nura al-Saad, Suhaila Zain al-Abedin Hammad, Fowziyah Abu Khalid and Wajeha …
Industrialization in the Gulf
Saudi women were particularly affected by the shift in the country’s economic fortunes. In just three decades, female literacy rates rose sharply, and today female students outnumber male students. This jump in the number of educated women generated a demand for work outside the home, though the workplace was not developed enough to receive women. Segregation, a practice less strictly followed before modernization,1 was gradually institutionalize…
Saudi Women and Islamic Discourse, Selected Examples of Saudi Feminisms
Saudi women entered the realm of writing and language only half a century ago through the genres of both creative and journalistic prose. In this paper, I shall take the example of four Saudi female writers who represent a wide range of intellectual pluralism that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of state and society, represented in this order by, Nura al-Saad, Suhaila Zain al-Abedin Hammad, Fowziyah Abu Khalid and Wajeha …
Industrialization in the Gulf
Saudi women were particularly affected by the shift in the country’s economic fortunes. In just three decades, female literacy rates rose sharply, and today female students outnumber male students. This jump in the number of educated women generated a demand for work outside the home, though the workplace was not developed enough to receive women. Segregation, a practice less strictly followed before modernization,1 was gradually institutionalize…
A Note on Meccan Women in the Fifteenth Century
The history of women in Arabia is a relatively new and unexplored area of research and the place of women in Mecca (Makkah), Islam’s holiest city, is particularly shrouded in darkness. From the fifteenth century, however, there has been a stream of biographical works ( tabaqat ) that shed much light on the women of the city. This note turns scholarly attention on such fifteenth and sixteenth century works as Taqi al-Din al-Fassi’s (d. 1429) eight…
Saudi Women and Islamic Discourse, Selected Examples of Saudi Feminisms
Saudi women entered the realm of writing and language only half a century ago through the genres of both creative and journalistic prose. In this paper, I shall take the example of four Saudi female writers who represent a wide range of intellectual pluralism that runs from conservative to liberal to radical conceptions of state and society, represented in this order by, Nura al-Saad, Suhaila Zain al-Abedin Hammad, Fowziyah Abu Khalid and Wajeha …
Rewriting Women's History in Islam
This paper is an attempt to reflect on the story of Hagar/Hajar, the Egyptian housemaid/slave of Sarah/Sarai, wife/concubine of Abraham/Ibrahim, the father of prophets, who became the mother of a nation and faith. It aims also at understanding what is beyond the narrative given by the Jewish and Islamic accounts of her life. Then the paper will re-read the significance of her representation and symbolism. The questions that this paper raises are:…
Islam (3 works) · Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Socioeconomic Development in MENA (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)