Join us on Sunday, February 25th, at 2pm EST for an informative discussion with Dr Hannah-Lena Hagemann on her book “The Khārijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition”
Hosted by Dr. Vinay Khetia, this instalment in our series ‘The Insight Interviews’, promises to be an engaging conversation.
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Hannah-Lena Hagemann is an historian of early Islam with a particular interest in historiography and historical memory, Khārijites, rebellion, Islamic Late Antiquity, the Umayyads, and the history of the Jazīra.
She received her PhD from Edinburgh University in 2015. The monograph based on her dissertation, entitled The Khārijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition, was published by Edinburgh University Press in 2021.
From 2014-2019, she was a research associate with the ERC project “The Early Islamic Empire at Work”, also at Hamburg. Her work there focused on the administrative geography, elite structures, and confessional relations of the Jazīra before the 10th century CE.
She is co-editor of Transregional and Regional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (De Gruyter, 2020). Since 2020, she has been PI of her own research group, which studies the social history of rebellious groups (Khārijites, ‘Alids, tribal notables, and Armenians) in the Umayyad and early ‘Abbāsid period.
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