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Meet our new faculty: Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed, Islamic studies

By Public Affairs

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Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed is a new member of the UC Berkeley faculty.

Mohamed Ben Hammed

February 13, 2024

Name: Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed (she/her)

Discipline: Islamic studies

Degrees: Ph.D., University of Chicago Divinity School, 2018; M.A., religion, Yale Divinity School, 2012; B.A., Yale University, 2010

Research interests: My research focuses on medieval Islamic philosophy and theology of the post-classical period. I’m particularly interested in the ways in which medieval thinkers of the Islamic world developed new philosophical approaches to epistemology and ontology.