American University of Beirut Lecturer on Arabic Feminist Literature (2016-2021-)

PhD    University of Toronto in Islam and Islamic Philosophy

Key Words: Qur'an, Literary criticism and Hermeneutics, Mary  in the Qur'an: From Text to Discourse,  Arabic Feminist Writing,  Women's Role in Consolidating the Culture of Peace and Dialogue.

- Book/Thesis

Mary in the Qur’an: A Literary Reading.  London & New York.  England: Routledge, 2016. Paper cover.

Mary in the Qur’an: A Literary Reading. London & New York.  England: Rout ledge, 2014. Hardcover.

- Editor/ Journal

Hosn Abboud & Dima Dabbous, Eds. On Islamic Feminist Texts and Women Activism, The Institute of Women in the Arab World (IWSAW),  Lebanese American University (LAU) Issue (2015-2016).

Hosn Abboud, Ed. Women and Scripture in the Arab World, The

Institute of Women in the Arab World (IWSAW), at the Lebanese American University (LAU) Dec. issue (2009).    

- Articles in  Books and Refereed Journals:

1.  Hosn Abboud, "The Poetics of the Body and Soul: Remembering Mary's Journey as an educational device in the Qur'an," in Sebastian Günther's Festschrift,  Leiden: Brill,  forthcoming.   

2. __________, "Denial of Similitude: The Exegetical Concern with Gender in  “And the Male is Not Like the Female” (Qur’an 3: 36).  In Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning  between Continuity and Change,  edited by Sebastian Günther .  Leiden: Brill, 2020.

3. __________, "Representations of the "Nation" in Arab Women Prison Memoirs."  In Representations and Visions of Homeland in Modern Arabic Literature, edited by  Sebastian Günther and Stephan Milich. Germany: Georg Olms Verlag, 2016.

4. __________, "Two Faces of the Revival of Feminist Qur'anic Exegesis:  A'isha Abd al-Rahman and Amina Wadud." In Jean Said Maqdisi et. als. Editors.  Arab Feminisms: Gender and Equality in the Middle East.  I.B. Tauris Publishers, In Association with The Centre of Arab Unity Studies and Lebanese Association of Women Researchers, 2014. 

5. _________, "General and Foundational Trends in «Islamic Feminism»  in the Arab World," in Omaima Abou-Bakr,  editor. Feminist and Islamic Perspectives: A New Horizons of Knowledge and Reform (Cairo: Women and Memory Forum, 2013).

6. _________, “Sūrat Maryam and the Pre-Islamic Panegyric Ode: A Study of the Tripartite Structure.” In Sources and Approaches Across Disciplines in Near Eastern Studies: Proceeding of the 24th Conference of L’Union Européenne des ArabisantsetIslamisants. Leuven: Peeters, 2013.

7. __________, “Idhan Maryam Nabiyya (Hence Maryam is a Prophetess): Muslim Classical Exegetes and Women’s Receptiveness to God’s Verbal Inspiration.” In Mariam, the Magdalen, and the Mother. Edited by Deridre Good, 183-196. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005.

 8.__________, “Quranic Mary’s Story and the Motif of Palm Tree and the Rivulet.” Parole del’Orient 30 (2005).

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