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Stephen Hay Award


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The Stephen Hay Award honors the memory of Professor Stephen Hay, who died in March 2001. The award supports graduate study of Islamic thought and culture.









Present and previous recipients:

2009 Heidi Morrison: "The Changing Concept of Childhood in Egypt, 1900-1950: nationalism, emotions, and
          children's rights"

2008 Elizabeth Brownson: “Gender, the Family and Islamic Law in Mandate Palestine, 1925-1939”

2007 Mateo M. Farzaneh: “The Process of Modernization in Shi’a Political Thought”

2005 Maria Del Mar Logrono: “The development of nationalist identities in French Syria and Lebanon”
          Nadia Mohamed Nader: “Politics of Memory: The Mihna Revisited"

2001 Hafiz Zakariya: “Islamic reform in colonial Malaya”

2000 Heather Keaney: “‘Uthman b. ‘Affan in medieval Islamic historiography”
          Nancy Stockdale: “Encounters among English, Arab and Jewish women in Palestine, 1800-1948”

1999 Stephen C. Cory: “Chosen by God to rule: the Caliphate and political legitimacy in early modern Morocco”
          Rhimou Bernikho-Canin: “Saints, sufis and sultans: the Zawiya of Wazzan, a Moroccan sufi order (1792-
               1892”)
          Eric Malcolm Staples: “Intersections: power, religion, and technology in seventeenth-century Salé-Rabat”

1998 Heather Keaney: “Remembering rebellion: “‘Uthman b. ‘Affan in medieval Islamic historiography”
          Nancy Stockdale: “Gender and colonialism in Palestine, 1800-1948”