Muhammad Safdar
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 284843 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Muhammad Safdar |
| PRENOMES | Muhammad |
| SOBRENOME | Safdar |
| ASSINATURA | SAFDAR M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Central Punjab |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3927-3781 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Samra Habib’s We Have Always Been Here
This article explores Samra Habib’s memoir We Have Always Been Here, by examining how they reorient their queer gender and sexual subjectivity in a discursive and affective space that challenges the centrality of popular universalist secular and Islamic moralist imaginaries concerning Muslim queer identity. In particular, I examine how Habib seeks agency from a reimagined queer Muslimness that is shaped by intersectional lived experiences. Throug…
Disinformation and Misinterpretation
Social media disinformation and misinterpretation of Islamic teachings about women's rights in Pakistan undermine Muslim women's endeavor to achieve gender equality. We argue that religio-patriarchal posts and memes circulating on social media misinterpret Islamic teachings regarding women's gender rights, deny feminism, perpetuate patriarchy, and undermine feminist activism in the conservative Islamic ideological nation-state. Drawing upon Islam…
Unbearable Muslim Masculinity in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
Researchers' concern has grown over an alarming trend among young Muslim men of immigrant backgrounds born in Western countries to adopt religiously extremist tendencies. They have overlooked the Western-born young Muslim men who are disillusioned by fundamentalist Western states and social behavior and reactionary Islamist politics. It is this relatively overlooked young Western-born (especially British-born) Muslim masculine subject that I inte…
Nihilopolitical erasure and resistance of British-born young Muslim women in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
Role Of Parents Towards The Social Media In Peace Building
The study titled Role of Parents towards the Social Media in Peace Building explored how parental guidance influenced the constructive use of social media for fostering harmony and conflict resolution. It highlighted parents as primary agents in shaping children’s digital behavior and promoting peace-oriented values within online spaces. The objectives of the study were to examine the influence of parents’ attitudes toward social media on their p…
Solidifying interstitial space (the third gender) for hijra/khwajasara through Islamic feminist hermeneutics
Love and Marriage
Muslim women in popular Western imagination have usually been viewed as victims of forced marriages and suppressed individualistic rights to love/desire, and Islam as the primary source of it. The trend has intensified in the post-9/11 gendered Islamophobic spotlight. Anglophone literature by Muslim women writers has countered this monolithic narrative by exploring the multi-layered complexity and fluidity of Muslim womanhood. We aim to examine t…
Examining digital information literacy as a determinant of women's online shopping behavior
Purpose The present study aims to examine the current digital information literacy (DIL) skills of female online shoppers in Lahore city of Pakistan. Data were gathered from a purposive sampling of women, aged between 20–50 years who were buying products online, not from the traditional retail stores. Out of 309 received questionnaires, 269 responses were useable and were utilized for data analysis. Descriptive and inferential statistics were use…
Repositioning sexuality of spatially mobile Muslim women in Kamila Shamsie’s broken verses
Muslim female subjectivity in Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Muslim female subjectivity in Pakistan has mostly been defined through the dualistic perspectives of secular and religious standpoints. This paper, however, aims to examine and foreground the agentive efficacy of subjectivity, which is neither exclusively secular nor religious. Mohsin Hamid’s novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia presents a nuanced literary depiction of the Muslim female subject position. By taking the ‘lived’ experiences o…
Beyond the Binary of the Religious and the Secular
Despite plethora of feminist research on Muslim women in Pakistan, mobility as an intersectional factor in the formation of their agency and its cultural impact has lacked the focus of scholarship -and, this lack of focus is especially glaring in literary criticism of Pakistani English literature. With the aim to analyze the impact of mobility in shaping Muslim women's agency in their performative creation of a third-space in relation to the trad…
Administrative Issues and Reforms in the Bureaucracy of Pakistan
This article highlights the nature of governance in bureaucracy in Pakistan during various regimes. The bureaucracy involved itself in politics and ignored the golden sayings of Quaid-i-Azam, which led it to face various sociopolitical and administrative issues and problems. Bureaucrats sense of primacy resulted in the politicization of bureaucracy. This intervention, as a result, led to decay, arbitrary decision-making, corruption, kickback cult…
Redefining Pakistani Muslim wifehood in Hamid’s and Shamsie’s fiction
Mobile Muslim women in Pakistan transcend the dualistic reductive discourses of the secular and the religio-cultural to carve out a distinctive modern subjectivity which is neither Western secular nor local religio-cultural; instead, it is interstitial. Pakistani fiction in English explores how mobile Muslim women in Pakistan choose their battles to renegotiate and redefine their gendered role of wifehood. However, it is still under-researched in…
Covid‐19
This study attempts to explore how the lockdown/containment measures taken by the government during the COVID-19 pandemic have threatened educated Muslim women's negotiated identity regarding wifehood and motherhood in urban Pakistan and how they struggle to reposition to reconstruct it. Through semi-structured interviews, making an in-depth comparative study of three differently situated cases (Muslim women), this study argues that the abnormal …
Gender in Hamid’s Fiction
Covid‐19
This study attempts to explore how the lockdown/containment measures taken by the government during the COVID-19 pandemic have threatened educated Muslim women's negotiated identity regarding wifehood and motherhood in urban Pakistan and how they struggle to reposition to reconstruct it. Through semi-structured interviews, making an in-depth comparative study of three differently situated cases (Muslim women), this study argues that the abnormal …
Gender in Hamid’s Fiction
Muslim female subjectivity in Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Muslim female subjectivity in Pakistan has mostly been defined through the dualistic perspectives of secular and religious standpoints. This paper, however, aims to examine and foreground the agentive efficacy of subjectivity, which is neither exclusively secular nor religious. Mohsin Hamid’s novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia presents a nuanced literary depiction of the Muslim female subject position. By taking the ‘lived’ experiences o…
Repositioning sexuality of spatially mobile Muslim women in Kamila Shamsie’s broken verses
Solidifying interstitial space (the third gender) for hijra/khwajasara through Islamic feminist hermeneutics
Love and Marriage
Muslim women in popular Western imagination have usually been viewed as victims of forced marriages and suppressed individualistic rights to love/desire, and Islam as the primary source of it. The trend has intensified in the post-9/11 gendered Islamophobic spotlight. Anglophone literature by Muslim women writers has countered this monolithic narrative by exploring the multi-layered complexity and fluidity of Muslim womanhood. We aim to examine t…
Gender in Hamid’s Fiction
Covid‐19
This study attempts to explore how the lockdown/containment measures taken by the government during the COVID-19 pandemic have threatened educated Muslim women's negotiated identity regarding wifehood and motherhood in urban Pakistan and how they struggle to reposition to reconstruct it. Through semi-structured interviews, making an in-depth comparative study of three differently situated cases (Muslim women), this study argues that the abnormal …
Beyond the Binary of the Religious and the Secular
Despite plethora of feminist research on Muslim women in Pakistan, mobility as an intersectional factor in the formation of their agency and its cultural impact has lacked the focus of scholarship -and, this lack of focus is especially glaring in literary criticism of Pakistani English literature. With the aim to analyze the impact of mobility in shaping Muslim women's agency in their performative creation of a third-space in relation to the trad…
Administrative Issues and Reforms in the Bureaucracy of Pakistan
This article highlights the nature of governance in bureaucracy in Pakistan during various regimes. The bureaucracy involved itself in politics and ignored the golden sayings of Quaid-i-Azam, which led it to face various sociopolitical and administrative issues and problems. Bureaucrats sense of primacy resulted in the politicization of bureaucracy. This intervention, as a result, led to decay, arbitrary decision-making, corruption, kickback cult…
Redefining Pakistani Muslim wifehood in Hamid’s and Shamsie’s fiction
Mobile Muslim women in Pakistan transcend the dualistic reductive discourses of the secular and the religio-cultural to carve out a distinctive modern subjectivity which is neither Western secular nor local religio-cultural; instead, it is interstitial. Pakistani fiction in English explores how mobile Muslim women in Pakistan choose their battles to renegotiate and redefine their gendered role of wifehood. However, it is still under-researched in…
Examining digital information literacy as a determinant of women's online shopping behavior
Purpose The present study aims to examine the current digital information literacy (DIL) skills of female online shoppers in Lahore city of Pakistan. Data were gathered from a purposive sampling of women, aged between 20–50 years who were buying products online, not from the traditional retail stores. Out of 309 received questionnaires, 269 responses were useable and were utilized for data analysis. Descriptive and inferential statistics were use…
Repositioning sexuality of spatially mobile Muslim women in Kamila Shamsie’s broken verses
Muslim female subjectivity in Mohsin Hamid's How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Muslim female subjectivity in Pakistan has mostly been defined through the dualistic perspectives of secular and religious standpoints. This paper, however, aims to examine and foreground the agentive efficacy of subjectivity, which is neither exclusively secular nor religious. Mohsin Hamid’s novel How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia presents a nuanced literary depiction of the Muslim female subject position. By taking the ‘lived’ experiences o…
Love and Marriage
Muslim women in popular Western imagination have usually been viewed as victims of forced marriages and suppressed individualistic rights to love/desire, and Islam as the primary source of it. The trend has intensified in the post-9/11 gendered Islamophobic spotlight. Anglophone literature by Muslim women writers has countered this monolithic narrative by exploring the multi-layered complexity and fluidity of Muslim womanhood. We aim to examine t…
Role Of Parents Towards The Social Media In Peace Building
The study titled Role of Parents towards the Social Media in Peace Building explored how parental guidance influenced the constructive use of social media for fostering harmony and conflict resolution. It highlighted parents as primary agents in shaping children’s digital behavior and promoting peace-oriented values within online spaces. The objectives of the study were to examine the influence of parents’ attitudes toward social media on their p…
Solidifying interstitial space (the third gender) for hijra/khwajasara through Islamic feminist hermeneutics
Samra Habib’s We Have Always Been Here
This article explores Samra Habib’s memoir We Have Always Been Here, by examining how they reorient their queer gender and sexual subjectivity in a discursive and affective space that challenges the centrality of popular universalist secular and Islamic moralist imaginaries concerning Muslim queer identity. In particular, I examine how Habib seeks agency from a reimagined queer Muslimness that is shaped by intersectional lived experiences. Throug…
Disinformation and Misinterpretation
Social media disinformation and misinterpretation of Islamic teachings about women's rights in Pakistan undermine Muslim women's endeavor to achieve gender equality. We argue that religio-patriarchal posts and memes circulating on social media misinterpret Islamic teachings regarding women's gender rights, deny feminism, perpetuate patriarchy, and undermine feminist activism in the conservative Islamic ideological nation-state. Drawing upon Islam…
Unbearable Muslim Masculinity in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
Researchers' concern has grown over an alarming trend among young Muslim men of immigrant backgrounds born in Western countries to adopt religiously extremist tendencies. They have overlooked the Western-born young Muslim men who are disillusioned by fundamentalist Western states and social behavior and reactionary Islamist politics. It is this relatively overlooked young Western-born (especially British-born) Muslim masculine subject that I inte…
Nihilopolitical erasure and resistance of British-born young Muslim women in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
Sociology (12 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Art (6 obras) · Social science (6 obras) · Gender Studies (5 obras) · Islam (5 obras) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 obras) · Philosophy (5 obras) · Political science (5 obras) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (5 obras)