Md Mahmudul Hasan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3726677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Md Mahmudul Hasan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Md Mahmudul |
| FAMILY NAME | Hasan |
| SIGNATURE | HASAN M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Islamic University Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5170-2406 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gender and Politics in English‐Language Autobiographies of Two Twentieth‐Century South Asian Muslim Women Writers
The marginalisation of Muslim women writers is evident in South Asian literary studies. They are often portrayed as hopelessly imprisoned in a patriarchal world, and their religion is usually deemed to have pushed them outside the pale of public life. Since English in South Asia is associated with modernity, progress and upward mobility and Muslim women with its opposite, their literary practices in the language may seem oxymoronic. Jahanara Shah…
The Publish or Perish Doctrine and Declining Commitment to Writing
Writers usually write in response to an intrinsic calling to express themselves, instruct the public, or enlighten the reader. Their urge for documenting their ideas and experiences comes from within, as they take the writing career as an expression of the self and as a vehicle of thought and human progress. Given the development of the modern education system, academics of tertiary institutions are found to write even if they do not possess such…
A bibliometric analysis of governance policy and institutional pathways for sustainability transitions in South Asia
The realization of sustainable development in South Asia is constrained less by technical deficits than by a persistent governance gap. This study provides a comprehensive bibliometric mapping of the research landscape concerning institutional pathways to sustainability in the region. Analyzing a curated dataset of 200 high-impact documents from the Scopus database (2000–2025), the study utilizes segmented regression and network analysis to trace…
Socio-Cultural and Structural Realities Shaping Post-Trafficking Social Reintegration Experiences of Human Trafficking Victims in Bangladesh
Education for Sustainability in South Asia
This study provides a comprehensive empirical assessment of the role of education in advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across South Asia, using balanced panel data from eight countries over the period 2000–2023. By disaggregating education into four core dimensions—inputs, outcomes, efficiency, and participation—the research explores how each aspect contributes to or constrains sustainable development progress. Employing advanced eco…
The Nexus between interest rates and inflation in South Asia
Inflation remains a persistent challenge for South Asian economies, significantly impacting economic stability and growth. This study, covering the period from 1995 to 2023, aims to examine the effects of key economic variables—deposit and lending interest rates, risk premiums on lending, and economic growth—on inflation dynamics in six South Asian countries: Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. The research employs a rob…
A safe operating space for the major rivers in the Bangladesh Delta
The contributions of water to all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are critical to achieving SDGs in the context of climate change. This poses a major challenge as nearly 40% of the global population lives under water scarcity, including areas such as Bangladesh, which is one of the largest, most populous and climate-vulnerable deltas (Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna: GBM) in the world. Here, we aim (first attempt) to analyse the historical dynamic…
Greening and browning trend with physio-climatic drivers in Chattogram division, Bangladesh
Climate Migration in Humayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers
The intensely precarious integration in many parts of Bangladesh between life, rivers and water has been reflected in the country’s river novels that describe the experiences of fishermen and riparian peasants. Among river systems in Bangladesh, the Padma (the Ganges in India) has inspired the greatest number of artists and their writing. Humayun Kabir’s Men and Rivers (1945) stands out as a climate document on the life of the peasantry, whose su…
Treatment Experiences for Patients Receiving Buprenorphine/Naloxone for Opioid Use Disorder
Background: Although buprenorphine/naloxone has been demonstrated to be an effective treatment for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD), treatment retention has been a challenge. This study extends what is presently a limited literature regarding patients’ experiences with this medication and the implications for treatment retention. Methods: The study was conducted as a qualitative investigation of patients in treatment for OUD at the time of…
Is solar power an emergency solution to electricity access? Findings from the largest Rohingya refugee camps
Travels to metropolitan London
Atiya Fyzee's and Zeyneb Hanoum's European trips in 1906 were unrelated, and their geographical origins, personal circumstances and travel purposes were different. However, interestingly, there are striking similarities in their experiences in Europe, especially those involving the metropolitan city of London. They stayed in various places on the continent, but the British capital city was a common destination where both spent relatively longer t…
Bangladeshi literature in English
Panchayat and colonialism in Humayun Kabir's Men and Rivers
Bengali peasants, as portrayed in Humayun Kabir’s 1945 novel Men and Rivers, have admirable notions of morality and justice, epitomized by the indigenous panchayat (village council/court) system. Written against the backdrop of peasant movements and anti-colonial struggles in Bengal, the novel implicitly provides an economic and cultural critique of British rule in the region. This article situates the text in colonial Bengal and the peasant revo…
Knowledge, practice, and economic impacts of Covid-19 on small-scale coastal fishing communities in Bangladesh
Islamic with Turkish Connections
South Asian Atiya Fyzee and her Turkish contemporary Zeyneb Hanoum were epistolary travel writers. Despite their variant geographical identities, both had Turkish connections and share similarities in their work. Both made trips to Europe in the early twentieth century when international travel was not as common as it is today. The preferred mode of long-distance travel then was by sea, as the faster means of air transportation began to be widely…
Iqbal’s and Hassan’s Complaints
Muhammad Iqbal and Mohd. Kamal Hassan respectively wrote “To the Holy Prophet” and “SMS to Sir Muhammad Iqbal” in the 1930s and in the 2000s – two extremely challenging times, as in the former most Muslim‐majority countries were under European colonial rule and in the latter, Western global powers wove an all‐pervasive web of domination and exploitation of them. They focus on the internal weaknesses of subjugated Muslims and lament that, since th…
Intimate revelations
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain creatively demonstrates in Padmarag (1924) the socially embedded association of women with evil. She brings together a group of women on the premises of Tarini Bhaban in order to explore their psychological terrain, as they share with each other previously untold memories and document their experiences of patriarchal oppression and domestic abuse. Through their reminiscences and memories, Rokeya lays bare the angst of wome…
Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights
Given that social constructions and deeply embedded cultural misapprehensions about gender, together with conventional views of female intellectual ability, denied women entry into institutional education, Wollstonecraft and Rokeya mounted a literary campaign to promote female education in their respective societies. They argued that female education would not only advance the cause of women, it would also be conducive to the interests of men as …
The Feminist “Quarantine” on Hijab
The discourse on feminism is sharply polarized between those who regard hijab as essentially debilitating and those who see it as an enabling tool for dignity, self-worth and freedom. This article will discuss both the negative and positive associations of hijab and point out ways it is used by Muslim women for liberatory ends. It will go against the grain of a common argument that hijab equates seclusion and constraints on women's participation …
Discovering Doris Lessing
The 2007 Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing (1919-2013) is one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and versatile British writers. Her literary career is marked by the robustness and diversity of her ideas. The plurality of voices in her work makes room for discovering a very different Lessing from how she is usually construed and for discussing some of her views in a new and somewhat unusual light. In this study, I intend to look at her…
Discovering Doris Lessing
The 2007 Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing (1919-2013) is one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and versatile British writers. Her literary career is marked by the robustness and diversity of her ideas. The plurality of voices in her work makes room for discovering a very different Lessing from how she is usually construed and for discussing some of her views in a new and somewhat unusual light. In this study, I intend to look at her…
Nasrin Gone Global
Taslima Nasrin’s writings, which are extremely critical of Islam, have sparked controversy over the contents of her feminist work and strategy. Although many dismiss these writings as an anti-Islamic provocation, her ideas are well-received in the West, where she is celebrated as a feminist rebel who defies the supposedly suffocating Bangladeshi Islamic patriarchy. Unlike earlier Islamic feminists, especially Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, who re-exami…
Muslim Bengal writes back
Despite its exploitative nature, colonialism facilitated continuous cultural exchanges between Muslim Bengal, home of the writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, and the European metropolis. Although Rokeya never visited Europe, she was exposed to European literature, overcame sociocultural constraints, and thus became engaged in a complex critique and assessment of European culture in relation to her own environment. This article explores the ways in wh…
Oppression versus Liberation
This article analyzes the representation of hijab and of hijab-wearing women in two post-9/11 British literary texts, Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005) and Shelina Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf (2009). It discusses the strong resolve of the heroines of these works with regard to wearing the hijab despite opposition to it from within their peers, friends and family members as well as Islamophobic hostility to this most overt and visible marker of…
Marginalisation of Muslim Writers in South Asian Literature
This article argues that there appears to be a pattern of disregarding the literary contributions of South Asian Muslim writers who produced English texts on a variety of topics. It then mainly contextualises Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s English works in the tradition of South Asian writing in English to identify a continuous trend of undervaluing Muslim literary contributions in English in the region. The article thus argues for a re-assessment of …
"Free speech, ban and "fatwa
Of the many feminist voices in Bangladesh, Taslima Nasrin is the best known for the censorship, fatwa and subsequent legal intervention against her. Of all her banned books, Lajja drew the widest international attention, and that, as many commentators argue, was especially because of the involvement of the Indian establishment and media that sought to distract the world's concern away from religious tensions and communal strife in India in the wa…
Muslim Bengal writes back
Despite its exploitative nature, colonialism facilitated continuous cultural exchanges between Muslim Bengal, home of the writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, and the European metropolis. Although Rokeya never visited Europe, she was exposed to European literature, overcame sociocultural constraints, and thus became engaged in a complex critique and assessment of European culture in relation to her own environment. This article explores the ways in wh…
Seeking Freedom in the “Third Space” of Diaspora
Muslim societies, and especially Muslim women, have often received fetishized attention in (neo-)Orientalist literature. However, opening up spaces for the voices of Muslim women especially those wearing the hijab is long overdue. Therefore, the representation of diasporic Muslim women and their multiple identities in Leila Aboulela's Minaret11. Leila Aboulela, Minaret, London: Bloomsbury, 2005. and Shelina Janmohamed's Love in a Headscarf22. She…
Bangladeshi literature in English
The Feminist “Quarantine” on Hijab
The discourse on feminism is sharply polarized between those who regard hijab as essentially debilitating and those who see it as an enabling tool for dignity, self-worth and freedom. This article will discuss both the negative and positive associations of hijab and point out ways it is used by Muslim women for liberatory ends. It will go against the grain of a common argument that hijab equates seclusion and constraints on women's participation …
Panchayat and colonialism in Humayun Kabir's Men and Rivers
Bengali peasants, as portrayed in Humayun Kabir’s 1945 novel Men and Rivers, have admirable notions of morality and justice, epitomized by the indigenous panchayat (village council/court) system. Written against the backdrop of peasant movements and anti-colonial struggles in Bengal, the novel implicitly provides an economic and cultural critique of British rule in the region. This article situates the text in colonial Bengal and the peasant revo…
Intimate revelations
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain creatively demonstrates in Padmarag (1924) the socially embedded association of women with evil. She brings together a group of women on the premises of Tarini Bhaban in order to explore their psychological terrain, as they share with each other previously untold memories and document their experiences of patriarchal oppression and domestic abuse. Through their reminiscences and memories, Rokeya lays bare the angst of wome…
Nasrin Gone Global
Taslima Nasrin’s writings, which are extremely critical of Islam, have sparked controversy over the contents of her feminist work and strategy. Although many dismiss these writings as an anti-Islamic provocation, her ideas are well-received in the West, where she is celebrated as a feminist rebel who defies the supposedly suffocating Bangladeshi Islamic patriarchy. Unlike earlier Islamic feminists, especially Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, who re-exami…
The Orientalization of Gender
Said’s critique of Orientalism provokes a comprehensive review by post-colonial theorists of the bulk of western knowledge regarding non-western countries. This Orientalist literature buttresses the colonial notion of a civilizing mission, which is also supported by many western feminists who provide theoretical grounds to such colonialist perceptions. Such post-colonial feminists as Gayatri Spivak, Chandra Mohanty, and Rajeswari Rajan analyze we…
"Free speech, ban and "fatwa
Of the many feminist voices in Bangladesh, Taslima Nasrin is the best known for the censorship, fatwa and subsequent legal intervention against her. Of all her banned books, Lajja drew the widest international attention, and that, as many commentators argue, was especially because of the involvement of the Indian establishment and media that sought to distract the world's concern away from religious tensions and communal strife in India in the wa…
Marginalisation of Muslim Writers in South Asian Literature
This article argues that there appears to be a pattern of disregarding the literary contributions of South Asian Muslim writers who produced English texts on a variety of topics. It then mainly contextualises Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s English works in the tradition of South Asian writing in English to identify a continuous trend of undervaluing Muslim literary contributions in English in the region. The article thus argues for a re-assessment of …
The Islamization of English Literary Studies
In today’s world where the former colonized are reshaping their relation with the colonizer, the concept of decolonizing or indigenizing education is widely discussed in postcolonial studies. Decolonizing/indigenizing education counters the western systems of knowledge’s hegemony over those of non-western systems of thought and requires the development of a new approach to education that keeps in view the indigenous societies’ socio-cultural and …
Islam’s Encounter with English and Ismail al-Faruqi’s Concept of Islamic English
In the past, many Muslims maintained strong reservations about using English as a means of communication, interaction, and intellectual practices mainly due to its association with British colonialism. In the postcolonial world Muslims and other religious communities, as well as various ethnic and indigenous groups, have moved away from the ideological and political assumptions of a binary relationship between English and their cultural and relig…
English literary Studies
Proponents of the integration of Islam into English literary studiesseek, by way of presenting Islamic worldviews in relation to thelife-worlds that English texts presumably promote, to inform (Muslim)students and practitioners of the subject about possible untowardinfluences in order to help them withstand cultural captivityand lifestyle effects. This is part of the wider concept of integratingIslam into human knowledge, which functions across a…
Seeking Freedom in the “Third Space” of Diaspora
Muslim societies, and especially Muslim women, have often received fetishized attention in (neo-)Orientalist literature. However, opening up spaces for the voices of Muslim women especially those wearing the hijab is long overdue. Therefore, the representation of diasporic Muslim women and their multiple identities in Leila Aboulela's Minaret11. Leila Aboulela, Minaret, London: Bloomsbury, 2005. and Shelina Janmohamed's Love in a Headscarf22. She…
Discovering Doris Lessing
The 2007 Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing (1919-2013) is one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and versatile British writers. Her literary career is marked by the robustness and diversity of her ideas. The plurality of voices in her work makes room for discovering a very different Lessing from how she is usually construed and for discussing some of her views in a new and somewhat unusual light. In this study, I intend to look at her…
Discovering Doris Lessing
The 2007 Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing (1919-2013) is one of the twentieth century’s most prolific and versatile British writers. Her literary career is marked by the robustness and diversity of her ideas. The plurality of voices in her work makes room for discovering a very different Lessing from how she is usually construed and for discussing some of her views in a new and somewhat unusual light. In this study, I intend to look at her…
Nasrin Gone Global
Taslima Nasrin’s writings, which are extremely critical of Islam, have sparked controversy over the contents of her feminist work and strategy. Although many dismiss these writings as an anti-Islamic provocation, her ideas are well-received in the West, where she is celebrated as a feminist rebel who defies the supposedly suffocating Bangladeshi Islamic patriarchy. Unlike earlier Islamic feminists, especially Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, who re-exami…
Muslim Bengal writes back
Despite its exploitative nature, colonialism facilitated continuous cultural exchanges between Muslim Bengal, home of the writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, and the European metropolis. Although Rokeya never visited Europe, she was exposed to European literature, overcame sociocultural constraints, and thus became engaged in a complex critique and assessment of European culture in relation to her own environment. This article explores the ways in wh…
Oppression versus Liberation
This article analyzes the representation of hijab and of hijab-wearing women in two post-9/11 British literary texts, Leila Aboulela’s Minaret (2005) and Shelina Janmohamed’s Love in a Headscarf (2009). It discusses the strong resolve of the heroines of these works with regard to wearing the hijab despite opposition to it from within their peers, friends and family members as well as Islamophobic hostility to this most overt and visible marker of…
Early defenders of women’s intellectual rights
Given that social constructions and deeply embedded cultural misapprehensions about gender, together with conventional views of female intellectual ability, denied women entry into institutional education, Wollstonecraft and Rokeya mounted a literary campaign to promote female education in their respective societies. They argued that female education would not only advance the cause of women, it would also be conducive to the interests of men as …
The Feminist “Quarantine” on Hijab
The discourse on feminism is sharply polarized between those who regard hijab as essentially debilitating and those who see it as an enabling tool for dignity, self-worth and freedom. This article will discuss both the negative and positive associations of hijab and point out ways it is used by Muslim women for liberatory ends. It will go against the grain of a common argument that hijab equates seclusion and constraints on women's participation …
Intimate revelations
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain creatively demonstrates in Padmarag (1924) the socially embedded association of women with evil. She brings together a group of women on the premises of Tarini Bhaban in order to explore their psychological terrain, as they share with each other previously untold memories and document their experiences of patriarchal oppression and domestic abuse. Through their reminiscences and memories, Rokeya lays bare the angst of wome…
Iqbal’s and Hassan’s Complaints
Muhammad Iqbal and Mohd. Kamal Hassan respectively wrote “To the Holy Prophet” and “SMS to Sir Muhammad Iqbal” in the 1930s and in the 2000s – two extremely challenging times, as in the former most Muslim‐majority countries were under European colonial rule and in the latter, Western global powers wove an all‐pervasive web of domination and exploitation of them. They focus on the internal weaknesses of subjugated Muslims and lament that, since th…
Knowledge, practice, and economic impacts of Covid-19 on small-scale coastal fishing communities in Bangladesh
Islamic with Turkish Connections
South Asian Atiya Fyzee and her Turkish contemporary Zeyneb Hanoum were epistolary travel writers. Despite their variant geographical identities, both had Turkish connections and share similarities in their work. Both made trips to Europe in the early twentieth century when international travel was not as common as it is today. The preferred mode of long-distance travel then was by sea, as the faster means of air transportation began to be widely…
Travels to metropolitan London
Atiya Fyzee's and Zeyneb Hanoum's European trips in 1906 were unrelated, and their geographical origins, personal circumstances and travel purposes were different. However, interestingly, there are striking similarities in their experiences in Europe, especially those involving the metropolitan city of London. They stayed in various places on the continent, but the British capital city was a common destination where both spent relatively longer t…
Bangladeshi literature in English
Panchayat and colonialism in Humayun Kabir's Men and Rivers
Bengali peasants, as portrayed in Humayun Kabir’s 1945 novel Men and Rivers, have admirable notions of morality and justice, epitomized by the indigenous panchayat (village council/court) system. Written against the backdrop of peasant movements and anti-colonial struggles in Bengal, the novel implicitly provides an economic and cultural critique of British rule in the region. This article situates the text in colonial Bengal and the peasant revo…
Treatment Experiences for Patients Receiving Buprenorphine/Naloxone for Opioid Use Disorder
Background: Although buprenorphine/naloxone has been demonstrated to be an effective treatment for patients with opioid use disorder (OUD), treatment retention has been a challenge. This study extends what is presently a limited literature regarding patients’ experiences with this medication and the implications for treatment retention. Methods: The study was conducted as a qualitative investigation of patients in treatment for OUD at the time of…
Is solar power an emergency solution to electricity access? Findings from the largest Rohingya refugee camps
A safe operating space for the major rivers in the Bangladesh Delta
The contributions of water to all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are critical to achieving SDGs in the context of climate change. This poses a major challenge as nearly 40% of the global population lives under water scarcity, including areas such as Bangladesh, which is one of the largest, most populous and climate-vulnerable deltas (Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna: GBM) in the world. Here, we aim (first attempt) to analyse the historical dynamic…
Greening and browning trend with physio-climatic drivers in Chattogram division, Bangladesh
Sociology (19 works) · Law (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · History (13 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Gender Studies (11 works) · History (11 works) · Islam (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works)