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Laura Hassan is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford, specializing in Islamic intellectual traditions. Her academic work bridges historical theology, philosophy, and science studies with particular expertise in post-classical Islamic thought. She maintains an active research profile with ongoing publications through 2024 focusing on theological anthropology, philosophy of language, and comparative religion.
Her primary research examines:
- Historical development of Ash‘arī theological tradition
- Interactions between medieval Islamic philosophy (falsafa) and theology (kalām)
- Epistemological frameworks in classical Islamic scholarship
- Religion-science dialogues in medieval and contemporary contexts
- Critical editions and analyses of works by key figures like al-Āmidī and al-Rāzī
She received the Gorgias Press Classical Islamic World Book Prize for her monograph examining creation theories in Ash‘arism and Avicennism. Her scholarly contributions consistently engage with manuscripts and primary sources to reconstruct medieval Islamic intellectual debates.
