Zora Hesová, M.A., Ph.D.

Assistant professor

Room: V406 (Voršilská 1, 11000, Prague, Czech Republic)

Email: zora.hesova@ff.cuni.cz

OrCiD: 0000-0001-7760-7941

Publications

Books

  • BARŠA, P., HESOVÁ, Z., SLAČÁLEK, O. (eds.) Central European Culture Wars: Beyond Post-Communism and Populism, Prague: Faculty of Arts Press, 2021
  • HESOVÁ, Zora (ed.): Abdolkarím Sorúš. Náboženství, modernita a sekularismus v současné íránské filosofii [Abdolkarim Soroush. Religion, modernity and secularism in contemporary Iranian philosophy]; Prague: Filosofia, 2021
  • NĚMEC, Damián and HESOVÁ, Zora. Annotated Legal Documents on Islam in Europe: Czech Republic, Leiden: Brill 2021
  • HESOVÁ, Zora, Ghazálího Výklenek světel a význam osvícení v islámské filosofii, [Al-Ghazāli’s Niche of Lights and the Meaning of Illumination in Islamic Philosophy, with a translation of Mishkāt al-Anwār], Prague: Academia, 2012

Research articles

  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Islamophobia in Czech Republic: National Report 2021, in: Enes Bayraklı & Farid Hafez, European Islamophobia Report 2021, Istanbul, SETA, 2021
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Wahhabis and Salafis, daije and alimi: Bosnian neo-Salafis between contestation and integration, Southeast European and Black Sea Studies, 4/2021, pp. 593-614, DOI: 10.1080/14683857.2021.1994209
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Three Types of Culture Wars and the Populist Strategies in Central Europe, Czech Journal of political science, Vol. 28, Nr. 2, 2021, pp. 115-135.
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Islamophobia in Czech Republic: National Report 2020, in: Enes Bayraklı & Farid Hafez, European Islamophobia Report 2020, Istanbul, SETA, 2021
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. New politics of morality in Central and Eastern Europe: actors, discourse, and context, Intersections. East European Journal of Society and Politics. Vol. 7, No. 1, 2021, pp. 59-77.
  • HESOVÁ, Z., RAŠIDAGIĆ, E. K., The Changing Role of the Traditional Islamic Organization: Three Challenges to the Restored Bosnian Islamic Community, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 2021, Vol. 40, Nr. 4, 2020., pp. 707-724.
  • RAŠIDAGIĆ, E. K, HESOVÁ, Z. Development of Turkish Foreign Policy Towards the Western Balkans with Focus on Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatian International Relations Review, XXVI:86 2020, pp. 96-129.
  • HESOVÁ, Zora, „Islamische Tradition“: Fragen an das bosnische Modell, Islam und Ghristlicher glaube. Zeitschrift des Instituts für Islamfragen (IfI), 2019
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Secular, Islamic or Muslim feminism? The places of religion in women’s perspectives on equality in Islam, Gender and Research, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2019, pp. 26-46.
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. „Islamic tradition”: questioning the Bosnian model, Occasional Papers on Religion in Eastern Europe, Vol 29, Nr. 5, 2019, pp. 128-139.
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Is the public sphere secular by principle?, Context, Sarajevo 2/2014, pp. 145-157.
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. The Notion of Illumination in the Perspective of Ghazali’s Mishkat al-Anwar, Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization, Lahore 2:2012, pp. 65-86.
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Scheler and Ghazali: Explorations of the Finality of Knowledge between East and West, Journalof Islamic Thought and Civilization, Lahore 2011, pp. 99-114.

Book chapters

  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Restoring the house rules: governing religious pluralism in Bosnia-Herzegovina after 1990, in: Račius, E., Yemelianova, G. (eds.), Muslims of post-Communist Eurasia, Routledge 2022.
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Towards secularity: Autonomy and modernisation of Bosnian Islamic institutions under Austro- Hungarian administration, in : F. Šístek (ed.), Central Europe and Balkan Muslims: Relations and Representations, New York, Berghahn 2021.
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. The Paradoxes of a Return of Religion to Public Debates and Political Discourses, in: Blagojević, M., Todorović, D.(eds.), Traditional and non-traditional religiosity, Belgrade: Institute of Social Sciences, 2019.
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Re-imagining the Balkans: The Other Side of a Periphery, in: Hudson, R., Dodovski, I., Amdeva, M.: Europe and the Balkans, AUC: Skopje 2018.
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Human Rights and Islam: Constitutional Debates in Egypt and Tunisia, in: Petr Drulák, Š. Moravcová (eds.): Non-Western Reflection on Politics, Peter Lang 2013.
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Trust thyself? Zur Bedeutung des moralischen Perfektionismus bei Stanley Cavell, in: Kathrin Thiele und Katrin Trüstedt (Hrsg.): HAPPY DAYS: Lebenswissen nach Cavell. München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2009, pp. 265-271.
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Ludwig Wittgenstein and Religious Language in Secular Age“, in: Cultures: Conflict – Analysis – Dialogue, Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Proceedings of the 29th International Symposium, Kirchberg, 2006, pp. 120-122.

Book chapters in Czech

  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Věkovitá i křehká sousedství: proměny soužití muslimů a křesťanů na Balkáně, in: Vojtíšek, Z. (ed.): Islám a křesťanství. Sborník k poctě prof. Kropáčka, Praha 2019 [Religious coexistence in the Balkans]
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Lidská práva po arabském jaru: vzůru do minulosti, in: Agha, P. (ed.)., Lidská práva v mezikulturních perspektivách, Praha: Academia, 2019. [Human rights after the Arab Spring]
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Umění vládnout v muslimském státě: Ibn Chaldúnův realismus, in: Ondřej Beránek (ed.): Svět za Karla IV, Praha: Academia 2018. [The art of governance: the realism of Ibn Khaldoun]
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Problém islám: Vrstvy protiislámských diskursů a jejich kontext, in: Bronislav Ostřanský (ed.) Islamofobie po česku, Praha: Academia 2018, pp. 155-178. [The problem of „Islam“ – three anti-islam discourses]
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Hledání bosenské tradice, in: D. Bittnerová, M. Moravcová (eds.), Etnické komunity. Balkánské cesty, 1. díl, Praha: Charles University Press 2015, pp. 153-186. [Looking for a Bosnian Tradition]
  • HESOVÁ, Zora. Liberální dilemata po arabských revolucích, in: O. Beránek (ed,): Arabské revoluce, Praha: Academia, 2013, pp. 114-142 [Liberal dilammas after the Arab revolutions]

Grants and fellowships

2021 – 2024Principal investigator, Protecting human rights in a polarised society (OLIPOL), Norway Funds, LP-HRMGSA-026
2017 –2022 Senior Researcher at KREAS. Creativity and adaptability as conditions for the success of Europe in an interrelated world, supported by the European Regional Development Fund (No CZ.02.1.01/0.0/0.0/16 _019/0000734).
2018 –2020Czech Science Foundation Grant: Culture wars and national trajectories of secularization in Central Europe (co-investigator) (GA18-18675S)
2014International Visegrad Fund: Citizen Journalism in Egypt (project leader, 2014)
2011 –2014Four TRANSITION grants, Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs/AMO (project leader 2011-2014)
2014Charles University Grant (GAUK): “al-Ghazali’s illumination”
2009Visiting student fellowship, Kevorkian Center (2009)
2006 – 2009DFG Project Lebensformen-Lebenswissen (Universität Potsdam)