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Md. Mahmudul Hasan

Academic Qualification

  • Feminist Comparative Literature - Doctor of Philosophy, University of Portsmouth
  • English Literature - Masters Degree, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
  • English Language - Bachelor Degree, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Mahmudul Hasan (Prof. Dr.)

Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus

ABDULHAMID ABUSULAYMAN KULLIYYAH OF ISLAMIC REVEALED KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN SCIENCES

mmhasan@iium.edu.my
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Expert Profile


I joined the Department of English Language and Literature at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) on June 1, 2010. The courses I have taught at IIUM include South Asian Literature in English, Islamic Literature in English, Twentieth-Century British Literature, and World Literature. I have completed supervising five PhD, nine Masters, and a number of FYP theses mainly in the fields of English, postcolonial/global, and feminist literatures. My work at IIUM manifests an interplay between English and postcolonial studies. 

I received pre-university education under Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board where the curriculum included courses in Arabic and Islamic studies along with more general subjects. My twelve-year madrasah education has been rewarding, as it helped me lay the foundation of my knowledge of Islam as well as Arabic and Urdu languages, along with Bangla and English.   

Since completing a PhD in comparative/global literature at Portsmouth (UK), I have taught at the University of Dhaka (3 years) and IIUM (13 years) in addition to doing a postdoctoral stint at Heidelberg in Germany. I have presented papers at conferences held in the USA, UK, Australia, Japan, Canada, Malta, and other countries. I have published in the fields of feminist, postcolonial, Islamic, South Asian, and Muslim diasporic literatures as well as Islam and English studies with presses such as the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Brill, Georgia Southern University, IIIT, IIUM, Orient BlackSwan, Routledge, SAGE, Wiley-Blackwell, and others. I guest-edited (with Mohammad A. Quayum of Flinders University) “Special Focus: Bangladeshi Literature in English,” Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Routledge), 58:6, 2022. 

I am  the author of Islamic Perspectives on Twentieth-Century English Literature (2017). My coedited books include Bangladeshi Literature in English: A Critical Anthology (2021), A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (2017), Islam and Gender: The Bangladesh Perspective (2016), Tales of Mothers (vols. 1 & 2, 2015 & 2019), Civilization and Society: Essays on Politics and Culture of South Asia and Other Issues (2022/1994), and Displaced & Forgotten (2017) that contains memoirs of refugees from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Palestine, Somalia, and Syria as well as interviews with those from Cambodia, Kashmir, and Syria.    
 

My articles have appeared in some of the best journals in the fields of literary, postcolonial/global, South Asian, and cultural studies, including Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Paedagogica Historica, South Asia Research, The Muslim World, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Hawwa, History of Education & Children’s Literature, and Asiatic. 
 
My PhD thesis “Introducing Rokeya’s Plural Feminism” completed at the University of Portsmouth in 2007 focused on comparing the South Asian writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s (1880-1932) works with those of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Attia Hosain (1913-98), and Monica Ali (1967-). My interest in South Asian literature was further stimulated when I researched South Asian Muslim feminist literature during my postdoctoral work at Heidelberg in 2009-2010. 
 

During my PhD years, I supply taught at British primary and secondary schools and team taught a course titled “Text in the City” at the University of Portsmouth. 
 

I write op-eds and literary pieces mainly for The Daily Star (Bangladesh), New Age (Bangladesh), and The New Straits Times (Malaysia). I contributed essays to now extinct Literature @ Portsmouth. 
 

I welcome research students wishing to work in the broad fields of English and comparative/postcolonial/global literature, Islamic literature, feminist literature, and Islamic perspectives on English studies.

More details about my research are available at http://irep.iium.edu.my/view/creators/Hasan=3AMd=2E_Mahmudul=3A=3A.html 

I edit a Scopus-indexed, open-access journal available at https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/ajell/issue/archive




Area of Specialisation


  • Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Religious Studies ~ Quranic and Hadith Studies - Islam and English studies.
  • Humanities ~ Humanities ~ History and Philosophy of Sciences and Medicine ~ History and Philosophy of Science and Technology - Feminist literary criticism; postcolonial feminism; women in Islam (Islamic feminism)
  • Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Arts and Culture ~ Traditional Arts and Culture - South Asian Muslim literature; South Asian Muslim women's writing; and South Asian literature in English.
  • Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Religious Studies ~ Comparative Religion - Comparing English and South Asian literature.


Professional Membership


  • 2008 - 2019: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (member ), Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought (BIIT)
  • 2022: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Coordinator ), Forum for Bangladesh Studies


Teaching Responsibilities


TOPICS IN ISLAMIC LITERATURE II 2023/2024


Research Projects


Completed
2021 - 2021 Editing and Introducing Syed Sajjad Husain's Civilisation and Society (1994)
2020 - 2020 Twentieth-Century English Literature
2020 - 2020 Major Islamic Writers
2018 - 2018 Islamic Perspectives on Twentieth-Century English Literature
2016 - 2018 Islamization and Integration of Knowledge in Rokeya's Works
2014 - 2016 Textbook Project, International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT, USA)
2013 - 2016 Islamization of English Literary Studies (Twentieth Century)
2013 - 2014 Imaginaries Versus Lived Experienced: Comparing Rokeya's and Taslima's Representations of Europe
2012 - 2013 Graduate Citizenry: Higher Education, Patriotism and Nation Building in Malaysia
2010 - 2011 Taslima Nasrin's Criticism of Islam: An Academic Response
On-Going
2021 - Present Islamic Perspectives on Victorian English Literature
2021 - Present An Introduction to Islamic Literature in English and Translation
2011 - Present Doris Lessing and Feminism: An Academic Response (RU 2011)


Publications


Article

2023 A caveat about 'Menu Rahmah'. New Straits Times, 13 April 2023 () pp.
2023 A champion of health care for the poor. New Age, () pp. 9-9
2023 African and Islamic: Doris Lessing’s notion of writerly commitment in “The Small Personal Voice”. Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, () pp. 1-12
2023 Ali Riaz on Bangladesh’s trials and tribulations. New Age, 7 March 2023 () pp. 9-9
2023 As God's vicegerents, let's do better in saving the environment. New Straits Times, 20 May 2023 () pp.
2023 Bangladesh’s political climate and relations with the US. New Age, Editorial (17th August 2023) pp. 8
2023 Contemporary Bangladesh politics and Ali Riaz’s Nikhoj Gonotontra. Prothom Alo English, 2 Feb 2023 () pp.
2023 Does Bangladesh have problems with the USA?. New Age, 3 October 2023 () pp. 8
2023 Food waste continues to be a blot on spirit of Ramadan 2023. New Straits Times, () pp. 1-3
2023 Gaza-Israel war: a sign of hypocrisy. New Age, 19 October 2023 () pp. 8
2023 Good words, corrupt words, and publishing etiquette. Asiatic, 17 (1 (June 2023)) pp. 1-8
2023 IIIT's Integration of Knowledge Summer Program 2023. Islamic Horizons, () pp. 38-39
2023 Israel-Palestine issue: governments and media insult citizens’ intelligence. The Daily Star, 30 October 2023 () pp.
2023 Manufacturing fear as a political tool. New Age, () pp. 9-9
2023 Muslim men must dress modestly, too. New Straits Times, Opinion (Columnist) (21st August 2023) pp.
2023 Muslims, Islam suffer from sweeping over-generalisations, stereotypes. New Straits Times, Opinion (7th July 2023) pp.
2023 Our ministers’ adulation of foreign leaders. New Age, Editorial () pp. 8
2023 Remembering John Molyneux, friend of Palestinians and oppressed peoples. New Straits Times, 16 Mar 2023 () pp.
2023 Remembering one of Malaysia’s best sons, Mohd. Kamal Hassan (1942-2023). IIUM Today, 17 Mar 2023 () pp.
2023 Rights for women and decency for men. New Age, 10 September 2023 () pp. 9
2023 Risks to health of KLIA cleaning staff. New Straits Times, Opinion (Letters) (14th August 2023) pp.
2023 Sharenting and how it violates our children’s rights. The Daily Star, Views (6th July 2023) pp. 9
2023 Spell it as 'Makkah' when referring to Islam's holy city. New Straits Times, 20 Jan 2023 () pp.
2023 Teachers’ indifference to students’ pain. New Age, () pp. 8-8
2023 The case for ensuring chastity for men with women's emancipation. New Straits Times, Opinion (11th August 2023) pp.
2023 The massacres of Jenin. New Age, Views (7th July 2023) pp. 8
2023 The rhetoric of 'it happens' and whataboutism in political apologia. The Daily Star, 9 Jan 2023 () pp. 8-8
2023 Why the West recognise poet-philosopher Muhammad Iqbal. New Straits Times, 19 Feb 2023 () pp.
2023 Widen understanding of Islamophobia, causes and victims. New Straits Times, 7 Jun 2023 () pp.
2023 Wife beating points to husband's ignorance of basic Islamic teachings. New Straits Times, 27 January 2023 () pp.
2022 Addressing the stark paucity in literature for Muslim children. New Straits Times, 9 August 2022 () pp.
2022 Ali Riaz’s ‘More than meets the Eye’ and a writer’s responsibility. The Daily Star, 28 July 2022 () pp. 10-10
2022 Alice Beck Kehoe’s girl archaeologist and gender relations in US society. The Daily Star, 8 October 2022 () pp. 14-14
2022 Are Friday khutbahs fit for purpose?. AboutIslam.net, 28 september 2022 () pp.
2022 Bangladeshi literature in English: A thrice born tradition. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, () pp. 1-11
2022 Feminism, motherhood and Rokeya. New Age, 9 December 2022 () pp. 9-9
2022 Have our du’aas turned into sheer civil expressions?. AboutIslam.net, 6 July 2022 () pp.
2022 How are foreign remittance earners treated in Bangladesh?. New Age, 1 November 2022 () pp. 8-8
2022 Humayun Kabir, Men and Rivers, and Faridpur. The Daily Star, 25 April 2022 () pp. WR3-WR3
2022 I am a child of chasha-bhusha. New Age, 25 January 2022 () pp. 9-9
2022 In memory of Uttar Goran’s grammarian: the life and legacy of Shah Abdul Hannan. Dhaka Tribune, 2 June 2022 () pp.
2022 Islam or Muslims didn't attack Salman Rushdie, a criminal did. New Straits Times, 17 Aug 2022 () pp.
2022 Looking at present-day Bangladesh through Rokeya’s mirror. The Daily Star, 9 December 2022 () pp.
2022 Manuscript Quality, Authorship Fraud, and Other Issues. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 16 (2) pp. 1-6
2022 Muslim women in the crucible of feminist theory. The Daily Star, 26 November 2022 () pp. 14-14
2022 Negligence, abuse: Is parenthood in crisis?. New Straits Times, 5 December 2022 () pp.
2022 Panchayat and colonialism in Humayun Kabir’s men and rivers. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, () pp. 1-15
2022 Past glory, present gloom of scholarship among Muslims. New Straits Times, 19 Mar 2022 () pp.
2022 Qaradawi's legacy of scholarship, intellectual contributions and activism lives on. New Straits Times, 21 October 2022 () pp.
2022 Razia Khan Amin: A Bangladeshi writer in English. The Daily Star, () pp. 14-14
2022 Reflections on my editorial praxis. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 16 (11) pp. 1-6
2022 Remembering Yusuf al-Qaradawi. New Straits Times, 7 October 2022 () pp.
2022 Sajid’s and Sourodip’s victory: to debate or not to debate. The Daily Star, () pp. 9-9
2022 The Bangla-English debate and English education in Bangladesh. New Age, 21 February 2022 () pp. 15-15
2022 The name change of our census suggests a democratic deficit. Forum for Bangladesh Studies, 4 September 2022 () pp.
2022 What I learned from Shahabuddin Ahmed. New Age, 23 March 2022 () pp. 9-9
2022 What's wrong with Muslim response to Rushdie affair?. New Straits Times, 29 August 2022 () pp.
2021 At Heidelberg with Moudud Ahmad. New Age, () pp.
2021 Bangladesh at 50: a call for unity in diversity. New Age, 16 December 2021 () pp.
2021 Capitol chaos in retrospect: the necessity of courage in politics. Islamic Horizons, () pp. 36-37
2021 Capitol chaos in retrospect: the necessity of courage in politics. Islamic Horizons (March-April 2021), 50 (2) pp. 36-37
2021 Discussing religion in classroom is not proselytisation. New Straits Times, () pp. 8-8
2021 Embracing the ship metaphor. The Star, Malaysia, 10 November 2021 () pp.
2021 In memoriam: Emajuddin Ahmad. New Age, 17 July 2021 () pp.
2021 In memory of Shah Abdul Hannan. New Age, 8 June 2021 () pp.
2021 Inspirational teachers can light candles in darkest minds of unmotivated students. New Straits Times, () pp.
2021 Irresponsible use of IT can derail academics. New Straits Times, 7 August 2021 () pp.
2021 Islamic with Turkish Connections: Atiya’s and Zeyneb’s Counter-narratives to the West. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 41 (1) pp. 86-101
2021 Minnat Ali’s Kafoner Lekha and the biography of an autobiography. The Daily Star, Dhaka, () pp.
2021 Myanmar's democracy rings hollow with Rohingya issue unresolved. New Straits Times, () pp.
2021 Narrative will change if Muslims are involved in capitol siege. New Straits Times, 14th January 2021 () pp.
2021 Publishing in Academic Journals: The Case of Asiatic. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 15 (1) pp. 1-8
2021 Remembering IIUM's 2nd rector, AbdulHamid A. AbuSulayman. New Straits Times, 26 Aug 2021 () pp.
2021 Remembering my teacher Shah Abdul Hannan. The Daily Star, Dhaka, 5th July 2021 () pp. 9-9
2021 Research and publication: a Muslim perspective. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 15 (2) pp. 1-10
2021 Rethinking public health pedagogy in muslim countries postcolonially. Bangladesh Journal of Integrated Thoughts, 17 (1) pp. 43-55
2021 Rokeya stands tall. The Daily Star, () pp. 10-10
2021 Rokeya's attitude towards men. New Age, 09 December 2021 () pp. 9-9
2021 Shah Abdul Hannan: an exemplary human being and teacher. Islamic Horizon, 50 (5) pp. 61-61
2021 Travels to Metropolitan London: experiences of two early twentieth-century Muslim women. Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies, () pp. 1-18
2021 World sees Palestinians as fighting an occupation. New Straits Times, 19 May 2021 () pp.
2020 Adaptation and auteurism in South Asian Studies with reference to Rabindranath Tagore’s Works on Screen. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 14 (1) pp. 259-272
2020 Adapting fairy tales through an Islamic lens: a study of Gilani-Williams’ Cinderella: an Islamic tale. History of Education & Children’s Literature, xv (2) pp. 891-905
2020 Atiya: the most iconoclastic of the Fyzee sisters. Literature at Portsmouth, () pp.
2020 Covid-19 and lockdowns make differences clearer. Malaysiakini, () pp.
2020 Death of Murad Hofmann: Some thoughts and recollections. The New Straits Times, () pp.
2020 Does Islam require women to stay home?. AboutIslam.net, () pp.
2020 Editing Asiatic and the burden of carrying Mohammad A. Quayum’s legacy forward. Asiatic, 14 (2) pp. 1-7
2020 Faith and practice: Islamic perspectives on Robert Browning. Intellectual Discourse, 28 (1) pp. 129-148
2020 Iqbal’s and Hassan’s complaints: a study of “To the Holy Prophet” and “SMS to sir Muhammad Iqbal”. The Muslim World, 110 (2) pp. 195-216
2020 Malcolm X’s the autobiography and US race relations. Literature at Portsmouth, () pp.
2020 Marmaduke Pickthall: a forgotten english novelist. Literature at Portsmouth, () pp.
2020 Masjids in the Prophet’s time and now: what has gone wrong?. AboutIslam.net, () pp. 1-2
2020 Mohd Kamal Hassan embodies integration of knowledge. New Straits Times, () pp.
2020 Myths about Islamic educational institutions: the case of IIUM. AboutIslam.net, () pp.
2020 Rokeya’s refuting the notion of women’s intellectual inferiority. New Age, Dhaka, () pp.
2020 Space-time correlation in inferring Islamic rulings. AboutIslam.net, () pp. 1-2
2020 The one vice Coronavirus should wipe out. AboutIslam.net, () pp.
2020 What do your lockdown reading habits reveal?. AboutIslam.net, () pp.
2019 Ban smoking during Ramadan. New Straits Times, () pp. 16
2019 Critical reception: a comparison between Rokeya and Woolf. The Daily Star, Dhaka, () pp. 11-11
2019 Intimate revelations: conversations among “evil” women in Rokeya’s Padmarag. Journal of Commonwealth Literature, () pp. 1-26
2019 Julian, first published woman writer in English. English Literature @ Portsmouth, () pp.
2019 Literary tourism: exploring Charles Dickens’ Rochester. The Daily Star, Dhaka, () pp. 13-13
2019 My PhD in English literature at Portsmouth. English Literature @ Portsmouth, () pp.
2019 Our debt of gratitude to Abdul Quadir. The Daily Star, () pp. 11
2019 Remembering Abdul Quadir: life and anecdotes. The Daily Star, () pp.
2019 Thoughts from my one-evening Ramadan experience. AboutIslam.net, () pp.
2019 Visiting Norwich, a UNESCO City of literature. The Daily Star, Dhaka, () pp. 13-13
2018 A long jihad: my quest for the middle way. The Muslim World Book Review, 39 (1) pp. 59-64
2018 Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights: Wollstonecraft’s and Rokeya’s strategies to promote female education. Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 54 (6) pp. 766-782
2018 IIUM’s Dr. Maszlee Malik becomes Malaysia’s Education Minister. Al-Misbah: IIUM News Bulletin, Jan-Jun () pp. 5
2018 Integrate moral, religious values in education system. New Straits Times, () pp. 16-16
2018 Introducing Bangladeshi writing in English: emergence to the present. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 12 (1) pp. 1-8
2018 Resisting colonialism, militarism and patriarchy: Rokeya's and woolf's feminist strategies. Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, 6 (2) pp. 41-52
2018 Rokeya and Woolf: souls that have lived. The Daily Star, () pp. 11-11
2018 Rokeya and woolf: souls that have lived. The Daily Star, Dhaka, () pp. 11-11
2018 Rokeya from a comparative literary perspective. The New Age, Dhaka, () pp. 9-9
2018 The bluestocking salons of eighteenth-century Britain. The Daily Star, Dhaka, () pp. 11-11
2018 The campus-masjid convergence in Islam. AboutIslam.net, () pp.
2018 The feminist “quarantine” on hijab: a study of its two mutually exclusive sets of meanings. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 38 (1) pp. 24-38
2018 Transplanted gender norms and their limits in Monica Ali’s Brick Lane. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English and Literature, 12 (1) pp. 59-77
2018 Writing from the margins: multiple subalternity of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature, 12 (2) pp. 174-191
2017 The Rohingya crisis: Suu Kyi’s false flag and ethnic cleansing in Arakan. Irish Marxist Review, 6 (19) pp. 50-60
2017 Women in the Western cultural tradition and the caricature of Islam as misogynistic. International Journal of Islamic Thoughts (IJITS), 6 (2) pp. 5-30
2016 136th birth anniversary of Begum Rokeya : Rokeya's wake-up call to women. The Daily Star, () pp. 15
2016 Discovering Doris Lessing: convergences between Islam and her thoughts. The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), 33 (2) pp. 25-49
2016 Distinguishing Islam from cultural practices: Conversations with Qaisra Shahraz. Asiatic : IIUM Journal of Asian Literatures, Cultures and Englishes, 10 (1) pp. 171-183
2016 Muslim Bengal writes back: a study of Rokeya’s encounter with and representation of Europe. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 52 (6) pp. 739-751
2016 Muslim women and knowledge: Are we ready to face the ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution’? . About Islam, () pp. 1-5
2016 Nasrin Gone Global: A Critique of Taslima Nasrin’s Criticism of Islam and Her Feminist Strategy. South Asia Research, 36 (2) pp. 167-185
2016 Oppression versus liberation: Representation of hijab in two post-9/11 British literary texts. Hawwa: Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World, 14 (2) pp. 147-165
2016 Rokeya's feminism and cultural affiliation. New Age, Dhaka, () pp. 9-9
2016 Teaching English literature at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on selected twentieth-century texts. Al-Shajarah, 21 (1) pp. 49-71
2015 Do Muslims have equal right to free speech?. OnIslam.net, () pp.
2015 English literary studies: including Islamic perspectives in pedagogy and practice. The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), 32 (1) pp. 1-22
2015 Muslims should take pride in Islamic greetings. New Straits Times, () pp. 16-17
2015 OPINION: Rokeya’s tolerance and magnanimity. The Daily Star, Dhaka, () pp.
2015 Review of the essential Rokeya: selected works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). The Daily Star (Dhaka) , () pp. 12-12
2015 Rokeya’s anti-colonial ideas: corporate exploitation of women in Bangladesh. The New Age, Dhaka, Bangladesh , () pp.
2015 Seeking freedom in the “third space” of diaspora: Muslim women's identity in Aboulela's Minaret and Janmohamed's love in a headscarf. Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, 35 (1) pp. 89-105
2015 Think twice before taking bribe: the binary of corruption and dignity. OnIslam, () pp.
2014 Approaching Teaching and Learning: The Islamic Way. Kulliyyah Research Bulletin, 5 (1) pp. 5-8
2014 Are people sincere condemning Israeli atrocities? a letter to the world. OnIslam.net, () pp. 1
2014 Good literature and bad literature: debate on Islam and poetry. International Journal of Islamic Thoughts, 3 (1) pp. 43-54
2014 How muslims trivialize the Qur'an. Muslim World Affairs , () pp.
2014 Islam's encounter with English and Ismail al-Faruqi's concept of Islamic English: A postcolonial reading. The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), 31 (2) pp. 1-21
2014 Journey through the world of Rokeya. The New Age, () pp.
2014 The relevance of Rokeya's legacy. The Daily Star, () pp.
2013 Commemorating Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and contextualising her work in South Asian Muslim feminism. Asiatic, 7 (2) pp. 39-59
2013 Islam and professionalism: in search of excellence. OnIslam.net, () pp. 1-3
2013 Islam’s encounter with women’s rights and feminism: the need for greater engagement of Muslim women. International Journal of Islamic Thought, 2 (1) pp. 81-94
2013 The Islamization of English literary studies: a postcolonial approach. The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), 30 (2) pp. 21-41
2012 Feminism as Islamophobia: a review of misogyny charges against Islam . Intellectual Discourse, 20 (1) pp. 55-78
2012 Marginalisation of muslim writers in South Asian literature: Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's English works. South Asia Research, 32 (3) pp. 179-197
2011 S M A Rashidul Hasan. Banglapedia, the National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh, 14 () pp. 354-354
2011 Syed Sajjad Husain. Banglapedia, the national encyclopedia of Bangladesh, 14 () pp. 427-427
2011 Wrong message to UK Muslims. The Independent, UK, 10th February 2011 () pp.
2010 Free speech, ban and “fatwa”: a study of the Taslima Nasrin affair. Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 46 (5) pp. 540-552
2010 Nawab Faizunnesa's Rupjalal. The Muslim World Book Review, 30 (2) pp. 65-69
2009 Ballads from Bangladesh: an anthology of poems (translated by Helal Uddin Ahmed and introduced by Syed Manzoorul Islam: Dhaka: Sucheepatra, February 2009). Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Humanities), 54 (2) pp. 147-150
2008 Love for Prophet Muhammad (Part One): a profound inspiring love. OnIslam.net, () pp.
2008 Love for Prophet Muhammad (Part Two): moral obligation and spiritual need. OnIslam.net, () pp.
2007 Proceeding to a postgraduate research degree: some tips . Alumni News 2007, XX () pp. 51-54
2005 A tribute to Mulk Raj Anand. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Humanities), 50 (1-2) pp. 569-578
2005 Brick lane by Monica Ali (Black Swan, London 2004 [First published by Dobleday, London, 2003]), pp. 496. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Humanities), 50 (1-2) pp. 667-672
2005 The orientalization of gender. The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), 22 (4) pp. 26-56
2004 Anti-colonial feminism: discourses of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak and Ania Loomba. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh (Humanities), 49 (1) pp. 89-104
2004 Indictment of misogyny on Mary Wollstonecraft and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. BRAC University Journal, 1 (2) pp. 1-12
Conference or Workshop Item

2023 Approaching research. In: Daylong Workshop on Research Process,
2022 Is Rokeya a feminist? Why yes, why not?. In: Celebrating Rokeya Day 2022,
2022 The Muslim diaspora in Britain and its literature. In: Race, Ethnicity and Migration in Postcolonial Literature,
2022 The Treatment of Love in Ibn Hazm’s Tawq al-Hamamah. In: DELL Annual Research Meet,
2022 Traveling and writing back: two Muslim women in early twentieth-century London. In: MACFEST 2022,
2021 AHAS KIRKHS Ibadah Camp 2021 Webinar: Surah Mujaadilah, verse 11. In: AHAS KIRKHS Ibadah Camp 2021 Webinar: Surah Mujaadilah, verse 11,
2021 Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s Islamic feminism. In: International Conference on Linguistics and Literature (InCoLL) 2021: Global Muslim Literature and English Studies,
2021 The writer as “an architect of the soul”: a study of Doris Lessing’s theory of literature. In: The writer as “an architect of the soul”: A Study of Doris Lessing’s theory of literature,
2020 Hassan Ibn Thabit’s poetry. In: DELL Research Seminar 2020,
2020 Publishing in academic journals. In: Session on Publishing in Academic Journals,
2019 African and Islamic: Lessing’s theory of literature in “The Small Personal Voice”. In: Doris Lessing at 100: The Writer’s Quest,
2019 In conversation with Dr Md. Mahmudul Hasan: the need to represent. In: In Conversation with Dr Md. Mahmudul Hasan,
2019 Islam and English studies. In: Seminar on 'Islam and English Studies and Writing Academic English',
2019 The unspeaking subaltern: Female domestic workers in Dhaka. In: 28th Women's History Network Conference 2019,
2019 Transmitting qur’anic and hadithic messages through literature: a study of rumi’s “love poems”. In: DELL Research Seminar,
2019 Travels to metropolitan London: experiences of two early twentieth-century Muslim women. In: “A Space of their Own: Women, Writing and Place, 1850-1950”,
2018 An Islamic reading of Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”. In: Symposium on Contextualization and Relevantization of Religion to the Contemporary World,
2018 Islamization of English literary studies. In: The 3rd International Conference on Islamic Education (3rd ICIED),
2017 ‘Dealing with the western intellectual heritage’: Reading twentieth-century English Literature in light of Alwani’s Sixth Discourse. In: Shaykh Dr. Taha Jabir Al-Alwani Conference,
2017 An Islamic reading of Marie Stopes’ married love. In: The International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW): From Brontë to Bloomsbury Fourth International Conference: Reassessing Women’s Writing of the 1900s and 1910s,
2017 Facing the challenges of the humanities and social sciences: the IIUM Way. In: Talk at The Markfield Institute of Higher Education (MIHE) 2017,
2016 Intimate revelations: conversations among ‘evil’ women in Rokeya’s Padmarag. In: The Evil Project: The 8th Global Meeting,
2016 Killing the angel in the house and “telling the truth about my own experiences as a body”: an Islamic perspective on Virginia Woolf’s stance on Victorian gender ideology. In: Research Symposium on Thought and Knowledge 2016,
2016 Writing academic English. In: Workshop on Academic Research Skills 2016,
2015 Postcolonial education system: challenges and responses. In: The International Conference on Islam, Economic, Banking, Social Science, Communication and Education (IEBBSSCE2-2015),
2015 Teaching Doris Lessing at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on her thoughts on education, literature, racism and women’s rights. In: The International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture and Education 2015 (ICLLCE 2015),
2015 Teaching English literature at IIUM: Islamic perspectives on selected twentieth-century texts. In: The 2nd International Conference on Islam, Economic, Banking, Social Science, Communication and Education (IEBBSSCE2-2015),
2014 English literary studies: Islamic perspective and method . In: IIIT Lecture,
2014 Fetishized hijab and resilient Muslim women: Representations of the veil in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and in Shelina Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf. In: Modern Language Association (MLA) Convention 2014,
2013 Gendered migrant experiences and multiple identities of Muslim women in Leila Aboulela’s Minaret and Shelina Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf. In: Inaugural Australasian Conference on Islam: Muslim Identity Formation in Religiously Diverse Societies,
2012 Muslim Bengal writes back: A study of Rokeya’s representation of Europe. In: Imaginary Europes,
2012 The intellectual and religious crisis of the modern educated Muslims: A study of Muhammad Kutb’s critique of colonial education policy in Muslim societies. In: International Conference on Colonialism and Decolonization: Challenges and Prospects (ICCD 2012),
2012 The Islamization of English literary studies: An introduction. In: Seminar on Islamization of English Literary Studies: An Introduction,
2011 Feminism as Islamophobia: can western feminism be replicated in Muslim society?. In: Seminar on Issues to Related to Feminism,
2011 Muslims’ encounter with the English language: a study of Ismail Raji al Faruqi’s concept of Islamic English . In: 5th BELTA INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2011: Learning English in a Changing World: Global Perspectives & Local Contexts,
2011 Taslima Nasrin’s Criticism of Islam: an Academic Response. In: Librasia 2011 - The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2011,
Book

2023 Journey to Islamicisation of Human Knowledge: a festschrift in honour of Mohd. Kamal Hassan. IIUM Press, ISBN:
2023 Journey to Islamicisation of Human Knowledge: a festschrift in honour of Mohd. Kamal Hassan. IIUM Press, ISBN:
2022 Civilization and society :essays on politics and culture of South Asia and other issues. Academia Publishing House Limited - APL, ISBN: 978-984-35-1685-5
2021 Bangladeshi literature in English: a critical anthology. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, ISBN: 978-984-35-0677-1
2019 A young Muslim's guide to religions in the world. BIIT Publishers, ISBN: 978-984-8471-66-1
2019 Tales of mothers 2: of love and courage. Iman Publication, ISBN: 978-983-2423-70-6
2017 A feminist foremother: critical essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. Orient BlackSwan, ISBN: 978-93-86296-00-9
2017 Convert experiences in Lena Winfrey Seder’s and Kristiane Backer’s autobiographies. IIUM Press, ISBN: 978-967-418-612-8
2017 Displaced & forgotten: memoirs of refugees. Iman Publication Sdn Bhd, ISBN: 978-983-2423-44-7
2017 Experiences of diasporic Muslim women: a study of Mohja Kahf's and Umm Zakiyyah's works. IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia, ISBN: 978-967-418-635-7
2017 Images of Islam and Muslim in v.s Naipaul's travel writing. IIUM Press, International Islamic University Malaysia, ISBN: 978-967-418-513-8
2017 Islam and Muslim in V. S. Naipaul's Travel Writing. IIUM Press, ISBN: 978-967-418-513-8
2017 Islamic perspectives on twentieth-century English literature. International Institute of Islamic Thought (East and South East Asia), ISBN: 978-967-15622-0-8
2016 Islam and gender: The Bangladesh perspective. Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought (BIIT), ISBN: 978-984-8471-43-2
2015 The greatest love: tales of mothers. Iman Publications , ISBN: 978-983-2423-28-7
2012 Woman in the light of Qur'an and Hadith. The Islamic Foundation, ISBN: 9789860613717
2011 Crossing boundaries: musings on language, literature and culture. IIUM Press, ISBN: 9789674181468
2009 Selections from Akram Khan's Tafsirul Qur'an. Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought (BIIT), ISBN: 984-70103-0016-0
Book Section

2023 AbdulHamid A. AbuSulayman: an intellectual trailblazer in educational and social reform. In: AHAS KIRKHS, IIUM, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN: 9789671981276, pp. 130-139
2022 Foreword. In: Islamic Literary Society, ISBN: , pp. 7-9
2022 Introduction. In: Academia Publishing House Limited - APL, ISBN: 978-984-35-1685-5, pp. vii-xvii
2021 Bangladeshi anglophone literature: an old and evolving tradition. In: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, ISBN: , pp. 1-16
2020 Bangladeshi English. In: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 9781118791806, pp. 297-315
2019 Challenges of womanhood and motherhood. In: Iman Publication, ISBN: 978-983-2423-70-6, pp. 199-216
2019 Introduction: a young Muslim's guide to religion in the world. In: BIIT Publishers, ISBN: 978-984-8471-66-1, pp. ix-xix
2019 Introduction: a young Muslim's guide to religions in the world. In: BIIT Publishers, ISBN: 978-984-8471-66-1, pp. ix-xix
2017 Conclusion: stranded refugees and the global conscience. In: Iman Publication Sdn Bhd, ISBN: 978-983-2423-44-7, pp. 145-168
2017 Conclusion: stranded refugees and the global conscience. In: Iman Publication Sdn Bhd, ISBN: 978-983-2423-44-7, pp. 145-168
2017 Introduction. In: Orient Blackswan (formerly Orient Longman), ISBN: 978-93-86296-00-9, pp. xi-xxvii
2017 The private-public dichotomy in Rokeya's works. In: Orient Blackswan (formerly Orient Longman), ISBN: 978-93-86296-00-9, pp. 154-172
2016 Working for women’s rights in Bangladesh. In: Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought (BIIT), ISBN: 978-984-8471-43-2, pp. 1-10
2015 Conclusion: reaffirming and celebrating motherhood. In: Iman Publications , ISBN: 978-983-2423-28-7, pp. 161-175
2011 Introduction: crossing boundaries and celebrating diversity. In: IIUM Press, ISBN: 9789674181468, pp. 9-15
2007 The trope of home and the representation of Muslim women in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column. In: A P H Publishing Corporation, ISBN: 81-313-0150-8, pp. 61-86
2007 The trope of home and the representation of Muslim women in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column. In: A P H Publishing Corporation, ISBN: 81-313-0150-8, pp. 61-86
Monograph

2016 Islamization of English literary studies (Twentieth Century). In: ,