Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed
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B.A., Yale University; Master’s of Arts in Religion, Yale Divinity School; Ph.D., The University of Chicago Divinity School. Professor Jacobsen Ben Hammed is particularly interested in the ways in which post-classical Muslim thinkers posited original and creative philosophical views in response to Greek systems of epistemology and metaphysics as interpreted through the Islamic philosophical movement (falsafa). Her dissertation entitled Knowledge and Felicity of the Soul in Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī examines the role of knowledge as perfecter of the immortal and immaterial soul as explored in the works of the highly influential Muslim theologian Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 1210), and probes the influence of the philosophical movement (falsafa) as well as the Corpus Hermeticum and the writings of the periphery group of Shiʿī philosophers, the Brethren of Purity (al-Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ), upon Rāzī’s thought. Her work has been published in Arabic Sciences and Philosophy, and she has presented her findings at such major conferences as the American Academy of Religion, the American Oriental Society, and the History of Philosophy Society. At Bard since 2019.