Papers by Dr. Mohammad Kaosar Ahmed
International Journal of English and Literature, Jan 31, 2013
There has been much misunderstanding, misinterpreta tion nd mischief concerning feminism and Isla... more There has been much misunderstanding, misinterpreta tion nd mischief concerning feminism and Islam. Islamic feminism explicates the idea of gender equality as part and parcel of the Quranic notion of equality of all insan (human beings) and calls for the implementation of gender equity. This paper is an attempt to present the debates concerning its place in the Islamic discourse, and its various paradigms. I hav e tried to present the vexed questions that have emerged in various writings about Islamic Femi nism, and the divergent responses given by eminent theoreticians. The aim of this paper is not to justify the paradigms of Islamic Feminism. I have just made a humble attempt to give a succinct overview of this new discourse that the contemporary Muslim Ummah is con fronting.
Both Lessing and Rokeya demonstrate their political consciousness in their writings. They also wr... more Both Lessing and Rokeya demonstrate their political consciousness in their writings. They also write against colonialism. Feminists are always politically active. For Lessing, politics means communism as she has been actively involved with the communist party. That Lessing’s political commitment is more intellectual than nationalistic makes her distinguished from Rokeya whose political concern is based on Bangali Nationalism. In her several essays, Rokeya opens out her political stance writing about the deprived Muslims, farmers and the colonized people of India. In spite of having a strong political bearing in mind, Rokeya unlike Doris Lessing did not involve herself with any political party.
Received : 29 Jan. 2019 Received in revised :14 April 2019 Accepted : 20 April 2019 Available onl... more Received : 29 Jan. 2019 Received in revised :14 April 2019 Accepted : 20 April 2019 Available online : 24 April 2019 DOI: 10.26655/JELCS.2019.2.5 Selina Hossain is a distinguished contemporary female writer from Bangladesh. Being a recognized feminist voice, Hossain delineates gender issues in her literary works. This paper is a humble attempt to study Hossain’s Ghumkature Ishwar with a view to focusing her portrayal of sisterhood a term used by feminists to express the connection of women who are bonded in solidarity. Characters like Ruposhi and Shorishafuli, Shukjan and other village women, and Lutfunnisa, Romela and Zaheda form sisterhood in the novel that sometimes gives them a space of their own, shows the power their bond and helps them to survive in the patriarchal spider-web.
International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 2019
IIUC Studies, 2016
Rabindranath Tagore was not only the first Indian, but also the first non-European to win the Nob... more Rabindranath Tagore was not only the first Indian, but also the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. He has earned his reputation worldwide for his English translation of Gitanjali. The reason for the enthusiasm for Tagore and a great interest in his poetry in the West can be traced in the comments made by T. S. Moore and Bertrand Russell. Writing to a friend, Moore opined that "his unique subject is 'the love of God'. When I told Yeats that I found his poetry preposterously optimistic he said 'Ah, you see' he is absorbed in God'" (Dutta and Robinson 2000, 170
International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 2019
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus has kept on catching the consideration of modern and postmodern pundits.... more Marlowe's Doctor Faustus has kept on catching the consideration of modern and postmodern pundits. For a very long while Faustian commentators are isolated between those two who see the play reflecting intense and steady religious standpoint, and the individuals who see the play as antireligious. This sharp resistance between the standard and heterodox perspectives partially mirrors the clashed life of the writer himself, who started his concise adulthood as a philosophy student and finished it as a famous figure blamed for agnosticism. This paper holds the perspective of the prior gathering of commentators contending that the concentration of deciphering this play ought to be religious. This article will endeavor to dissect the play from the perspective of Islam. Islam has something critical to say in regards to human nafs (mind), the everlasting clash between good and evil; friendship, and repentance and salvation.
Mother Teresa, a woman world famous for her faith has felt no presence of God for the last half c... more Mother Teresa, a woman world famous for her faith has felt no presence of God for the last half century of her life. Though she has always greeted everybody with smile, a recently published book Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light featuring more than forty communications between Teresa and her superiors and confessors reveals that she has experienced spiritual 'dryness', 'loneliness' and 'torture'. This article attempts to show the discrepancy between her thought and her cheery public appearance which she maintains smiling, 'a clock that covers everything'.
As feminism is basically a Western phenomenon, some Muslims believe that feminism is a European a... more As feminism is basically a Western phenomenon, some Muslims believe that feminism is a European alien invention that should be rejected to be true to Islam. This paper is an attempt to explore the history of feminism, its manifestation in the Islamic discourse, and its intellectual appropriateness and inappropriateness, to probe that the term 'Islamic feminism' is not paradoxical.
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Papers by Dr. Mohammad Kaosar Ahmed