Hamza A. Dudgeon
Hamza Dudgeon is an academician in Religious Studies, Psychoanalytic Studies and Islamic History. He is currently a doctoral student at Emory University's Islamic Civilizations Studies program.
Hamza takes a critical Lacanian psychoanalytic approach to examine Umayyad & ʿAbbāsid imperial ideologies & their obverse in the development of Islamic ritual mythology (uṣūl al-fiqh), all while methodologically subverting Modernity via non-Western epistemologies and Counter-Enlightenment thinkers in the spirit of decolonization; Critical Theory; psychoanalysis; theory of religion; religious ethics; historiography; Africana studies; structural & poststructural approaches to Arabic philology; palæography, codicology, & papyrology.
Ever since he was a teenager Hamza has been an anti-Racism activist, starting by participating in the movement to oust Neo-Nazi leader Jeff Schoep from Hutchinson, MN. Born and raised in Minneapolis' Baldies culture, Hamza has been actively involved in protesting police brutality after the Jamar Clark, Philando Castile, George Floyd, and Tortuguita Paez Terán murders. "Combining activism and the scholastic life is what Islām is all about, khidma (service) & Īmān (faith) go hand-in-hand," says Hamza. He speaks fluent Arabic, German, some Somali, some Mandarin Chinese, some French among other languages. Hamza is a history buff who has a YouTube channel, "Hamza The Historian" and a channel on polyglottery, "Hamza the Linguist." Hamza has published several academic articles on Islamic history.
Ever since he was a teenager Hamza has been an anti-Racism activist, starting by participating in the movement to oust Neo-Nazi leader Jeff Schoep from Hutchinson, MN. Born and raised in Minneapolis' Baldies culture, Hamza has been actively involved in protesting police brutality after the Jamar Clark, Philando Castile, George Floyd, and Tortuguita Paez Terán murders. "Combining activism and the scholastic life is what Islām is all about, khidma (service) & Īmān (faith) go hand-in-hand," says Hamza. He speaks fluent Arabic, German, some Somali, some Mandarin Chinese, some French among other languages. Hamza is a history buff who has a YouTube channel, "Hamza The Historian" and a channel on polyglottery, "Hamza the Linguist." Hamza has published several academic articles on Islamic history.
"Hide nothing from the masses of our people. Tell no lies.
Expose Lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties,
mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories." - Amílcar Cabral
Expose Lies whenever they are told. Mask no difficulties,
mistakes, failures. Claim no easy victories." - Amílcar Cabral