{"id":7295,"date":"2025-07-01T04:08:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T08:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/halla-a-attallah\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T17:07:21","slug":"halla-a-attallah","status":"publish","type":"faculty-profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/profile\/halla-a-attallah\/","title":{"rendered":"Halla A. Attallah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ph.D., Georgetown University; M.A., American University of Paris; B.S., M.S., University of Washington<\/strong><br \/>\nHalla Attallah is an Assistant professor of religious studies, focusing on the Qur\u2019an and early Islamic history through a gender- and disability-conscious lens. She enjoys teaching a range of classes on scriptural traditions, qur\u2019anic and biblical stories, religion and embodiment, feminist approaches to scripture, and methods in reading religious texts. Attallah\u2019s research examines embodiment in the Qur\u2019an\u2019s worldview. She is interested in how different bodies are used to shape various theological arguments central to both the Qur\u2019an, as a historical text, and the later Muslim discourses. Her current work considers reproduction, infertility, and maternity in the Qur\u2019an\u2019s annunciation scenarios associated with Mary, Sarah, Abraham, and Zachariah. Recent and upcoming publications include \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/svmcproject.org\/the-book\/chapter-12\/\">Surat Yusuf and the MeToo Movement: A Reflection<\/a>,\u201d \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/brill.com\/display\/book\/9789004683167\/BP000019.xml\">Disability Rhetoric and Ethics in the Qur\u2019an\u2019s Narratives: A Literary Analysis of Speech and Hearing in Q 21:51-72 and Q 20:9-41<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cMary and the Birth of Jesus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When not in her office, she can be found exploring coffee shops in Portland or hiking different trails around Maine with her family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1871,"featured_media":7616,"template":"","class_list":["post-7295","faculty-profile","type-faculty-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","expertise-specific-disability-and-religion","expertise-specific-early-islamic-history","expertise-specific-feminist-and-queer-theory","expertise-specific-feminist-and-womanist-interpretations-of-the-bible","expertise-specific-feminist-readers-of-the-quran","expertise-specific-gender-and-religion","expertise-specific-quranic-studies","expertise-specific-stories-of-the-hebrew-bible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faculty-profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7619,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faculty-profile\/7295\/revisions\/7619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/faculty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}