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Introduction
No full textThe whole corpus of Husain’s extant writing is not available to me. However, while reading his works one after another, I developed a crescendo of admiration for the man and for his intellectual abilities and linguistic skills. Apart from his books and essays that I have read, he authored other works in Bangla and English which I suspect are comparable treasure troves of knowledge. All his works have a set of particular features and are distinctive in scope and often ground-breaking; they are contributions to our growing knowledge and understanding of the world. Hence, it may be difficult to say for certain which of his works marks his crowning achievement. However, Civilization and Society was his last book that was published during his lifetime; so it can be
said with some certainty that in it he presents his most mature, polished, and carefully argued ideas. I believe readers will enjoy reading the book and corroborate my impression about it
Working for women’s rights in Bangladesh
No full textThere is no denying that women in many societies suffer from multiple layers of discriminations and social exclusion, and that the patriarchal social structure aggravates their susceptibility to various forms of oppression and abuse. Men have enjoyed various
privileges at the expense of women’s rights and wellbeing. Whenever challenged, custodians of gender-based inequalities have used social mythologies, and sometimes pseudo-religious arguments, to facilitate and sustain the complex structure of gender stereotypes and to defend their privileges, and thus to perpetuate their domination over women. As a result, as far as
gender relations are concerned, especially in Muslim cultural contexts, religion and patriarchy seem enmeshed and inseparable because of misuse and wrong interpretations or misapplications of Islamic religious texts. However, people of good will and sound judgment and intellectuals with substantial socio-cultural
knowledge and Islamic scholarship have said it over and over again that the religion of Islam is a means of, and not an impediment to, women’s liberation and empowerment
Islam and gender: The Bangladesh perspective
Get PDFThis book contains English essays on gender issues the author Shah Abdul Hannan originally wrote in Bangla over more than two decades. As part of his continuing quest for justice, he has been passionate about establishing gender egalitarianism in Bangladesh society. Even though the sociocultural reality of Bangladesh has been at the back of his mind while penning his thoughts transmitted in these essays, they can be effective in addressing gender disparities in other societies as well. The crux of his arguments with regard to gender issues corresponds with what the emerging Islamic feminist discourse promotes, that is, the best way to address gender inequities and gender based discrimination is to go back to the teachings of Islam. At the same time, Shah Abdul Hannan believes, it is important to understand the primary sources of Islam – the Qur’an and the Sunnah – in the context of contemporary concerns and perspectives. This book should be highly useful to all those who are interested in Islam and gender as well as policy makers and researchers in this field
Civilization and society :essays on politics and culture of South Asia and other issues
No full textCivilization and Society is a collection of essays written in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I am fully aware that I cannot speak for anybody but myself. I can claim, however, that I have judged issues from the perspective of a Muslim, keenly conscious that while he cannot understand either himself or the world without reference to Islam and its history, he must also be alive to the fact that there is a large area of his experience which he can explain only in the light of events in the non-Islamic world. This can sometimes create agonizing problems. But the truth has to be faced boldly
Journey to Islamicisation of Human Knowledge: a festschrift in honour of Mohd. Kamal Hassan
No full textBangladeshi Literature in English: critical essays and interviews
No full textThis pioneering book brings together several critical essays on Bangladeshi writers in the English language, both at home and abroad, and interviews with a prominent poet and a novelist. The past years have seen various attempts to conceptualize and debate the tradition of Bangladeshi literature in English. English has been in Bengal, which included the geographical territory that constitutes present-day Bangladesh, since the arrival of Ralph Fitch in 1583, and although Bengalis started experimenting creatively in the language in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the tradition suffered significant setbacks in Bangladesh and remained in semi-muzzled state for various political and cultural reasons discussed in the book, before and after independence. However, the tradition has seen a surge since the 1990s, and several writers have emerged on home soil and in places where Bangladeshis have settled, including Australia, Canada, Sweden, the UK, and the USA. The book provides an overview of this tradition and investigates the various thematic and stylistic issues in the works of the selected writers, suggesting the vibrancy and versatility of this evolving national and postcolonial literary stream. The book will be of interest to researchers, academics, and scholars in the field of Bangladeshi writing in English, Southeast Asian literature, Asian literature, diaspora, and literary studies
Death of Murad Hofmann: Some thoughts and recollections
Get PDFBorn a Catholic in Germany’s Aschaffenburg, Hofmann began his university education at Union College in New York in 1951. Then he studied law at Munich and Harvard Universities with a PhD in jurisprudence from the former in 1957 and a Master of Law from Harvard Law School in 1960. A prolific author of about a dozen books and an eloquent speaker, Hofmann embraced Islam in 1980, performed hajj in 1992 and describes his hajj experiences and his thoughts and reflections on various aspects of Islam in Journey to Makkah
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