Edmund Hayes
University lecturer
- Name
- Dr. E.P. Hayes Ph.D.
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 4692
- e.p.hayes@hum.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-1615-5157
Edmund Hayes gained his doctorate with honors from the department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He works on early Islamic history, in particular Shiʿi history, focusing on the intersection of intellectual developments and social and political dynamics. He is a founder-member of the Shiʿi Studies Group at the University of Chicago.
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Edmund Hayes comes to Leiden University as assistant professor in January 2024. He is a historian of Islam and the medieval Middle East. His particular focus has been the social history of early Shiʿa Islam, especially in its Imami and Twelver strands, giving rise to his 2022 monograph, Agents of the Hidden Imam: Forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE, and numerous articles on the institutions of Imami Shiʿism, including alms tax collection, agents, epistolary culture, pilgrimage and excommunication. He has also written on topics relating to the social and cultural and intellectual history of the medieval Middle East, including sexuality and the body, ethnic and cultural identity, and the history of water management. From 2024-2028 he will be Principal Investigator on the ERC Starting Grant funded project, Embodied Imamate: Mapping the Development of the Early Shiʿi Community 700-900 CE.
University lecturer
- Faculty of Humanities
- Leiden Institute for Area Studies
- SMES APT
- Hayes E.P. (2022), Agents of the hidden Imam: forging Twelver Shi‘ism, 850-950 CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Hayes E. (2022), ''Smash his head with a rock'': Imāmic excommunications and the production of deviance in late ninth-century Imāmī Shīʿism, Al-Masaq. Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean 35(1): 54-75.
- Adem R. & Hayes E.P. (Eds.) (2021), Reason, esotericism, and authority in Shiʿi Islam. Shii Islam: Texts and Studies no. 2. Leiden: Brill.
- Hayes E. (2021), The institutions of the Shīʿī Imāmate: towards a social history of early Imāmī Shiʿism, Al-Masaq. Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean 33(2): 188-204.
- Hayes E.P. (2021), Perversion and subversion: mother guidance and illicit sexuality in Ibn Dāniyāl’s shadow play. In: Rojas F. & Thompson P.E. (Eds.), Queering the medieval mediterranean: transcultural sea of sex, gender, identity, and culture. The Medieval Mediterranean no. 121. Leiden: Brill. 95–116 .
- Hayes E.P. (2021), The Imam who might have been: Jaʿfar “the Liar” between political realism and esoterist idealism. In: Adem R. & Hayes E.P. (Eds.), Reason, esotericism, and authority in Shiʿi islam reason, esotericism, and authority in Shiʿi Islam . Shii Islam: Texts and Studies no. 2. Leiden: Brill. 73-106.
- Adem R. & Hayes E.P. (2021), Introduction: On the Use and Abuse of Reason and Esotericism in Islamic Studies. In: Adem R. & Hayes E.P. (Eds.), Reason, esotericism, and authority in Shiʿi Islam. Shii Islam: Texts and Studies no. 2. Leiden : Brill. 1–23 .
- Hayes E.P. (2021), Review of: Najam Haider (2019), The Rebel and the Imām in Early Islam: Explorations in Muslim Historiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. International Journal of Middle East Studies 53(3): 549-551.
- Hayes E.P. (2021), Between Implementation and Legislation: The Shi`i Imam Muhammad al-Jawad's Khums Demand Letter of 220 AH /835 C E, Islamic Law and Society 28(4): 382-414.
- Hayes E. & Scheerlinck E. (2020), Introduction: acts of protection in early Islamicate societies, Annales Islamologiques 54: 3-14.
- Hayes E. (2019), Early Islamic cosmopolitanism?: Constructing the ʾumma of India in pre-Mongol Muslim scholarship, Comparative Islamic Studies 13(1-2): 75-120.
- Hayes E. (2018), Alms and the man: fiscal sectarianism in the legal statements of the Shiʿi Imams, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies 17: 280-298.