Md Nazrul Islam
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Md Nazrul Islam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Md Nazrul |
| FAMILY NAME | Islam |
| SIGNATURE | ISLAM M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Shahjalal University of Science and Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3732-3965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 52 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Assessment of food safety knowledge, attitudes, and self-reported practices among secondary school students in Bangladesh
Foodborne diseases are a significant public health problem in Bangladesh, particularly among school students with unsafe handling and consumption of food is a common practice. Therefore, this study assessed food safety knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) among secondary school students across Bangladesh and examined socio-demographic predictors and division-wise variations in these areas. This cross-sectional study was conducted from 10 Jan…
Why Strong Authoritarian Regimes Fall
Assessment of Obesity, Comorbidities and Associated Factors among Women Aged 35–45 in Dhaka City
Background: Obesity is an emerging public health concern in urban Bangladesh, particularly among middle-aged women, where it contributes to an increasing burden of non-communicable diseases. Local evidence on obesity rates, determinants and comorbidity profiles for mid-life urban women has traditionally been sparse, hindering targeted interventions. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of obesity, examine sociodemographic determinants and de…
Poverty and education
Imagined” authenticity
This paper investigates the reach of Chinese cuisine in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, and is based on face-to-face and online interviews with restaurant managers and eaters. Early literature has revealed that Chinese cuisine is popularly known as Bongo-Chinese in Dhaka, a fusion of Chinese cuisine with Bengali tastes, and is widely popular among the Bengali middle class. This study has noticed that a growing number of young university student…
Officials’ perceptions on the effectiveness of the RTI act 2009 in fulfilling SDG 16.6
Prevalence and determinants of vulnerability among Sundarbans mangrove forest resource-dependent communities in cyclone-prone southwestern coastal districts of Bangladesh
Vulnerability assessment is crucial for reducing the impact of natural disasters on marginalized coastal communities. In Bangladesh, studies have addressed the vulnerability of coastal populations, but they often overlook the Sundarbans mangrove forest resource-dependent communities (SMFRDCs). These marginalized groups, reliant on the forest, frequently face natural disasters such as cyclones, increasing their vulnerability. This study seeks to a…
Degradation of mangrove forests in the Sundarbans
Mangrove forests provide vital ecosystem services to communities in tropical countries, yet they are susceptible to degradation. The causes and effects of mangrove forest degradation in the Sundarbans of Bangladesh have not been thoroughly investigated. This study aimed to explore these issues from the perspective of mangrove resource collectors (MRCs). Utilizing the DPSIR (Driver, Pressure, State, Impact, and Response) framework, data were colle…
Assessing household, plant-based, and animal-based dietary diversity and their determinants among Sundarbans mangrove forest resource-dependent communities in Bangladesh
The Household Dietary Diversity Scale (HDDS) is a widely accepted measure of dietary and nutritional intake patterns of individuals or households. However, it comprises two components: the plant-based dietary diversity score (P-BDDS) and animal-based dietary diversity score (A-BDDS). However, there is no empirical study regarding the pattern of HDDS, P-BDDS, and A-BDDS among Sundarbans mangrove forest resource-dependent communities (SMFRDCs). Thu…
Physicians’ Intentions to Recommend Influenza Vaccine
Physicians' influenza vaccine recommendations in Bangladesh are suboptimal, influenced by gender, marital status, and attitudes. Targeted educational interventions addressing attitudinal barriers and leveraging institutional support could improve recommendation practices
Ethnicity, culture and human development of Bangladesh’s tea workers
Nypa juice collection as an alternative income-generating activity
This study aimed to explore whether Nypa juice collection as an alternative income-generating activity (AIGA) influenced the life and livelihood of the coastal communities of Bangladesh. Following a cross-sectional survey method, this study was conducted in four unions of Kalapara and Taltoli Upazila (sub-district) of Patuakhali and Barguna districts, where data were collected using a multistage stratified random sampling from 415 participants, i…
Assessing the role of the for-profit private healthcare sector in malaria elimination efforts in Bangladesh
This study highlights challenges and recommendations for engaging private for-profit health facilities in Bangladesh's malaria elimination efforts. The identified challenges include low-quality RDTs, staff shortages, and inadequate capacity building. Recommendations emphasize effective training, stakeholder interaction, and enhanced oversight for successful malaria control efforts
Breaking the barriers
This article aims to examine the structural constraints to aspirations for higher education of tea workers' offspring in Bangladesh and how some of them overcame these constraints and determined their future pathways. The study was conducted drawing insights from Arjun Appadurai's capacity to aspire and Pierre Bourdieu's capital, habitus and field and employing a qualitative case study of two tea gardens in greater Sylhet, Bangladesh. We used a t…
No dreams, no gain
Unraveling the effects of a rehabilitation program on the socioeconomic wellbeing of beggars and begging motivation
Beggars have largely been leading miserable lives in the lower stratum of society since time immemorial. Government or private-led policies are rarely undertaken to improve the lives of this unfortunate societal segment. The local governments in divisional cities of Bangladesh have adopted a series of interventions aimed at improving the socioeconomic wellbeing of beggars and equipping them with alternative livelihood management options. We evalu…
Theorizing the relationship between the digital economy and firm productivity
With the rise of emerging economies such as China, the research environment for the digital economy (DE) has changed significantly. However, our understanding of the productivity impact of DE development in Chinese firms remains in its infancy. The idiosyncrasies of the firm-specific contexts are closely related to further research on the this topic. As a baseline, we hypothesize a U-shaped DE-firm productivity (FP) relationship. We analyze the i…
Prevalence, correlates and common conditions associated with adolescent dietary supplement use
Objective: There is a broad spectrum of dietary supplements (DS) and their accessibility worldwide. However, little is known about the prevalence of DS use among Bangladeshi adolescents. This study estimates the prevalence, correlates and common conditions related to DS use. Design: A cross-sectional, convenient sampling strategy was adopted using an interviewer-administered, structured questionnaire. Setting: Kurigram and Patuakhali districts of…
Prevalence and predictors of pornography exposure during the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic
Background Pornography exposure, particularly among students, in Bangladesh, has increased in the twenty-first century. However, pornography exposure during the COVID-19 pandemic, when people were compelled to “stay at home” and relied extensively on the internet for all forms of activities, including academia, socializing, and communication, has remained unexplored. The present study aimed to assess the prevalence of pornography exposure among s…
Job insecurity and mental health related outcomes among the humanitarian workers during Covid-19 pandemic
Our findings highlight that job security remains essential to help tackle the severity of depression, anxiety and stress in humanitarian workers. The results reflected the critical importance of local and international NGOs addressing poor mental health conditions of their employees to prevent mental health outbreaks
Mental Health Status of Teachers During the Second Wave of the Covid-19 Pandemic
It is strongly recommended that the government and policymakers provide proper mental health services to teachers in order to reduce mental health problems and thus sustain the quality of education during and after the pandemic
Seasonal influenza vaccine uptake among healthcare workers in tertiary care hospitals, Bangladesh
Clinicaltrials.gov NCT05521763. Version 2.0 was registered in September 2022, and the first participant enrolled in March 2022. Retrospectively registered
Faithful Participation
The ‘ulama have an important position in Muslim society. They hold influence not only in the socio-religious domain but also in the political domain. This article aims to examine the religio-political roles of the ‘ulama in Bangladesh. The examination has been done through an exhaustive and critical content analysis of published secondary literature about the ‘ulama and politics. The article argues that the Bangladeshi ‘ulama are diverse and have…
The Rohingya Crisis
Biomedical doctor as acupuncturist
Politics and Islamic Revivalism in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is an overwhelmingly Muslim majority country in South Asia. Islam is quite predominant in its political, social and cultural landscapes. While most classical and the contemporary sociologists predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the advent of the industrial society, Bangladesh has instead witnessed a reemergence of the religious forces in its society. In order to address this theor…
New age orientalism
The branding of ayurveda as a market strategy for the health consumer has become an important factor in the creation of ‘New Age orientalist desire’. Using Vedic Village as a case, this paper shows how new age orientalism has been spread in modern India to middle class professionals, entrepreneurs and overseas health tourists. With this representation, ayurveda has become a wellness therapy instead of a means to restore health, and affluent peopl…
Life behind leaves
This article aims to investigate the causes of poverty and vulnerability, and the survival strategies, of the tea garden workers in Bangladesh. The study was conducted drawing insights from Sen’s and Nussbaum’s capability approach and employing a triangulation of methods, which include intensive interviews, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews, for collecting data. The study finds that capability deprivation in various spheres of…
Political Islam in South Asia
The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (BJI) is the largest Islamist Party in Bangladesh. It was founded in 1941 in British-India, by Maulana Mawdudi, a prominent South Asian Islamist leader. The BJI has undergone political vicissitudes during its eight-decade-long political history. The most notable political success of the Party was to have a couple of cabinet positions as a coalition partner in the Nationalist–Islamist Government between 2001 and 2006…
Voices of the poor
This article aims to investigate the true situation of rights and agency of the Bangladeshi teagarden workers, drawing insights from James Scott’s theory of ‘public’ and ‘hidden’ transcripts and employing multi-sited ethnography. We collected data through qualitative in-depth interviews, case studies, focus group discussions, and direct observation for this study. Rights, in Scottian terms, are the public transcript to produce agency of the worke…
Breaking the barriers
This article aims to examine the structural constraints to aspirations for higher education of tea workers' offspring in Bangladesh and how some of them overcame these constraints and determined their future pathways. The study was conducted drawing insights from Arjun Appadurai's capacity to aspire and Pierre Bourdieu's capital, habitus and field and employing a qualitative case study of two tea gardens in greater Sylhet, Bangladesh. We used a t…
No dreams, no gain
Indigenous Medicine as Commodity
This article explores how indigenous medicine, ayurveda in particular, has been transformed into health products for middle-class consumers in a modern Indian society. Consumerism has been developed and the patients and the general public become the ready consumers of ayurvedic health products. In this process of commodification, large pharmaceutical companies have appreciated ayurveda and redefine the nature of ayurvedic drugs and drug productio…
Ethnicity, culture and human development of Bangladesh’s tea workers
Faithful Participation
The ‘ulama have an important position in Muslim society. They hold influence not only in the socio-religious domain but also in the political domain. This article aims to examine the religio-political roles of the ‘ulama in Bangladesh. The examination has been done through an exhaustive and critical content analysis of published secondary literature about the ‘ulama and politics. The article argues that the Bangladeshi ‘ulama are diverse and have…
The Rohingya Crisis
The application of Foucault's disciplinary power to microcredit programmes in two villages of Sylhet, Bangladesh
This article aims to explore the loan recovery mechanisms of two internationally-reputed microcredit and development organisations in Bangladesh. The organisations are Grameen Bank and Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). We conducted an institutional ethnography to study the phenomenon of loan recovery from the poor. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, case studies, informal discussion, and direct observation. Purposive sa…
Islam and Democracy
Is authoritarianism intrinsic to Islam? Is Islam incompatible with democracy? These questions are frequently debated in the context of the study of the relationship between the Western and Islamic civilization. The debate has gained momentum since the last decade of the twentieth century, especially after the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the subsequent transition of socialist states in Eastern Europe and other authoritarian states in A…
The Promotion of Masculinity and Femininity through Ayurveda in Modern India
This article argues that, although men’s sexual health has been presented in classical ayurvedic texts as associated with semen, physiology and reproduction, ayurvedic companies in modern India relate men’s sexual health to the ‘power of masculinity’ with an emphasis on sexual prowess, focusing on premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, etc. Women’s health is presented in the classical ayurvedic texts in terms of human reproduction, but ayur…
Sociology in Bangladesh
Bangladesh
Sociology, Phenomenology and Phenomenological Sociology
Sociology in Bangladesh
Sociology in Bangladesh NAZRUL ISLAM University of Dhaka duregstr@bangZa. net through a period of change. While new topics are being assimilated into the old academic institutions, Marxism is once more demonstrating its great adaptability and power of diversification. The situation also has changed in the crucial areas of textbook and manual publishing: The number of books devoted to sociology doubled between 1995 and 1996, and the list of books …
Sociology in Bangladesh
Sociological Factors Affecting Agricultural Price Risk Management in Australia
The highly volatile auction system in Australia accounts for 85 percent of ex-farm wool sales, with the remainder sold by forward contract, futures, and other hedging methods. In this article, against the background of an extensive literature on price risk strategies, we investigate title behavioral factors associated with producers' adoption of price risk-management strategies (specifically futures and forward contracts) for selling wool. This r…
Indigenous Medicine as Commodity
This article explores how indigenous medicine, ayurveda in particular, has been transformed into health products for middle-class consumers in a modern Indian society. Consumerism has been developed and the patients and the general public become the ready consumers of ayurvedic health products. In this process of commodification, large pharmaceutical companies have appreciated ayurveda and redefine the nature of ayurvedic drugs and drug productio…
The Future of Food
A scholarly article by authors Angela Wardell-Johnson, Nazrul Islam, and Tanmoy Nath, Stephanie Bizjak published in The International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic, and Social Sustainability: Annual Review
Repackaging Ayurveda in Post-Colonial India
Reviving Ayurveda in post-colonial India has paradoxically been a nationalist venture, where the post-colonial state has restructured traditions, rather than reviving traditional Ayurvedic education, training and apprenticeship. After more than a half century of Indian independence, the majority of Ayurvedic practitioners perceive the impact of British colonial rule negatively, despite the fact that they followed Western methods and frameworks to…
New age orientalism
The branding of ayurveda as a market strategy for the health consumer has become an important factor in the creation of ‘New Age orientalist desire’. Using Vedic Village as a case, this paper shows how new age orientalism has been spread in modern India to middle class professionals, entrepreneurs and overseas health tourists. With this representation, ayurveda has become a wellness therapy instead of a means to restore health, and affluent peopl…
The Promotion of Masculinity and Femininity through Ayurveda in Modern India
This article argues that, although men’s sexual health has been presented in classical ayurvedic texts as associated with semen, physiology and reproduction, ayurvedic companies in modern India relate men’s sexual health to the ‘power of masculinity’ with an emphasis on sexual prowess, focusing on premature ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, etc. Women’s health is presented in the classical ayurvedic texts in terms of human reproduction, but ayur…
Mental Health and Functioning of Female Sex Workers in Chittagong, Bangladesh
Our study revealed that FSW in Chittagong are very vulnerable and highly impaired, as expressed by high rates of abuse and mental disorders. Coercion is very common and many FSW are required to work in the sex business because they need the money to support their families. FSW are a very marginalized population, especially in the developing countries where awareness for mental health is low and the availability of mental health services is insuff…
God in politics
Religion remains a dominant social institution and a topic of sociological inquiry.This research has explored the complex interplay among Islam, Islamism and democracy in Bangladesh, addressing some pressing questions: What is the relationship between Islamic tradition and democracy?What is the origin and development of Islamic tradition in Bangladesh?What are the key social and historical trajectories through which Islamism has developed in Bang…
Islam and Democracy
Is authoritarianism intrinsic to Islam? Is Islam incompatible with democracy? These questions are frequently debated in the context of the study of the relationship between the Western and Islamic civilization. The debate has gained momentum since the last decade of the twentieth century, especially after the collapse of the former Soviet Union and the subsequent transition of socialist states in Eastern Europe and other authoritarian states in A…
Assessment of Nutritional Status of Infants Living in Arsenic-Contaminated Areas in Bangladesh and Its Association with Arsenic Exposure
Data is scarce on early life exposure to arsenic and its association with malnutrition during infancy. This study followed the nutritional status of a cohort of 120 infants from birth to 9 months of age in an arsenic contaminated area in Bangladesh. Anthropometric data was collected at 3, 6 and 9 months of the infant's age for nutritional assessment whereas arsenic exposure level was assessed via tube well drinking water arsenic concentration at …
Politics and Islamic Revivalism in Bangladesh
Bangladesh is an overwhelmingly Muslim majority country in South Asia. Islam is quite predominant in its political, social and cultural landscapes. While most classical and the contemporary sociologists predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the advent of the industrial society, Bangladesh has instead witnessed a reemergence of the religious forces in its society. In order to address this theor…
Silk Road to Belt Road
Silk Road to Belt Road
The Rampal Power Plant, Ecological Disasters and Environmental Resistance in Bangladesh
This paper examines the conflict between state and society which surrounds the potential social and environmental impacts of the coal-based Rampal Power Plant in Bangladesh. The project, if implemented, would create a risk of serious social and environmental damage in Bangladesh and would potentially displace impoverished communities. Near Rampal, the world’s largest mangrove forest and a world heritage site – the Sundarbans – is at risk. Rampal …
Life behind leaves
This article aims to investigate the causes of poverty and vulnerability, and the survival strategies, of the tea garden workers in Bangladesh. The study was conducted drawing insights from Sen’s and Nussbaum’s capability approach and employing a triangulation of methods, which include intensive interviews, focus group discussions, and key informant interviews, for collecting data. The study finds that capability deprivation in various spheres of…
Approaches to World Englishes Print Media
This article provides a study of important frameworks expected to interpret and analyse World Englishes print media (newspapers). It is clear that the frameworks of Kachruvian and Strevens initially theorize print media and lexical borrowing. This leads to the introduction of numerous paradigms and ideas suggested by other prominent theorists about the World Englishes news media perspective. All in all, a summary of such frameworks contributes to…
Nypa fruticans Wurmb leaf collection as a livelihoods strategy
Voices of the poor
This article aims to investigate the true situation of rights and agency of the Bangladeshi teagarden workers, drawing insights from James Scott’s theory of ‘public’ and ‘hidden’ transcripts and employing multi-sited ethnography. We collected data through qualitative in-depth interviews, case studies, focus group discussions, and direct observation for this study. Rights, in Scottian terms, are the public transcript to produce agency of the worke…
The application of Foucault's disciplinary power to microcredit programmes in two villages of Sylhet, Bangladesh
This article aims to explore the loan recovery mechanisms of two internationally-reputed microcredit and development organisations in Bangladesh. The organisations are Grameen Bank and Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC). We conducted an institutional ethnography to study the phenomenon of loan recovery from the poor. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, case studies, informal discussion, and direct observation. Purposive sa…
Chinese Medicine and Transnational Transition during the Modern Era
Studying the Role of Media in the Diffusion of English Words Into the Kashmiri Language
Studying the predominant occurrence and existence of English lexicon in other languages in contact with English has emerged out to be of immense interest among the researchers of sociolinguistics and theoretical linguistics. The present study is devoted to demonstrate various English-Kashmiri language contact situations and the subsequent diffusion/ flow of English words into the Kashmiri language. The study attempts to explore the significant ro…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (19 works) · Geography (18 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Economics (14 works) · Economic growth (10 works) · Business (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Bangladesh Politics, Society, and Development (8 works)