Sharjil Saeed
Biographic Data
| ID | 97766 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sharjil Saeed |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sharjil |
| FAMILY NAME | Saeed |
| SIGNATURE | SAEED S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of San Francisco |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2671-8112 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Ritual cursing as an oath of submission: The problem of religious difference across Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan
This article undertakes a comparison between Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan with the aim of highlighting the similarities and differences between their respective state projects of crafting 'Islamic' polities. The comparison proceeds through a focus on the state-sanctioned practice of ritual cursing of Sunnis and Ahmadis in Safavid Iran and Pakistan respectively. In both cases, the states made extensive legal efforts to mark out these religious…
Acquisition of Wh-Questions by Second Language Speakers of English in Pakistan
Purpose of the study: The purpose of the current study is to investigate the acquisition of Wh-questions of English by Urdu L1 speakers in Pakistan. Acquisition of different syntactic structures has been an attractive area of interest for the scholars working in the area of second language acquisition. The study draws on approaches of Universal Grammar (UG) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA). The researchers aim at finding out whether the seco…
Analysis and Forecastability of Market Model: Evidence From Pakistani Market Index and Emerging Market Index
Purpose of the Study: This study examines and analyzes the influence of the Market Model on the Market Level Return (KSE-100 index) and the Emerging Market Level Return (MSCI Index). Methodology: The study has employed the sample data of the companies’ representatives of the Oil and Gas Sector of Pakistan from July 2001 to June 2018 respectively. For estimation, the Panel Regression techniques are employed followed by the Forecast Error Statistic…
Decolonization Struggles at the United Nations: The Question of Algeria, 1955-1961
Although national self-determination emerged as an international legal norm with the formation of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, its implementation continued to be resisted by European colonial powers for decades after. This raises the following question: how was European colonial rule challenged at the UN? This article contends that existing accounts of decolonization have not fully theorized the processes through which colonialism was contest…
Religion, classification struggles, and the state's exercise of symbolic power
Robin Dunford and Michael Neu. 2019. Just War and the Responsibility to Protect: A Critique . London: Zed Books
Robin Dunford and Michael Neu’s Just War and the Responsibility to Protect: A Critique is a brief, incisive book that compellingly critiques the United Nations’ doctrine of Responsibility to Protes
Unemployment and social stigma: Naming, blaming and shaming of educated youth in rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
Purpose This article aims to highlight the stigmatization attached to the unemployment of educated youth in rural regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach The study explicates the subjective experiences of the youth as being unemployed and societal attitudes toward them through an in-depth qualitative approach. A total of 30 unemployed male individuals were interviewed through an interview guide. Findings Th…
Exploiting IoT and big data analytics: Defining Smart Digital City using real-time urban data
Jonathan Fox, The Unfree Exercise of Religion: A World Survey of Discrimination against Religious Minorities
Politics of Desecularization: Law and the Minority Question in Pakistan
Over time the Pakistani state has moved from accommodating the Ahmadiyya community as full citizens of the state to forcibly declaring them non-Muslim and eventually criminalizing them for their religious beliefs. Politics of Desecularization deploys the 'Ahmadi question' to theorize a core feature of modern public Islam - its contested and unsettled relationship with the nation-state form. It posits that our current understandings of modern reli…
Imperial Ideologies, Transnational Activism
This article examines how a transnational religious movement that originated in British India, the Ahmadiyya movement, deployed the norm of religious freedom in the course of its expansion outside the British Empire. Ostracized by mainstream Muslims, Ahmadis used their position as imperial subjects to demand that the British protect their right to religious freedom in political spheres beyond the British Empire and irrespective of territorial jur…
P akistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, came into existence on August 14, 1947, when British colonial rule in India ended. Pakistan's founding was preceded by a Muslim nationalist movement spearheaded by the All‐India Muslim League under the leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. It was premised on the “two‐nation theory.” This ideology holds that Muslims and Hindus of the Indian subcontinent constitute two separate nations and a newly…
Secular power, law and the politics of religious sentiments
This paper undertakes a political sociology of religious sentiments by examining how social actors seek to make their religious sentiments legible and authoritative within structures of modern state governance. It argues that a central dimension of religious politics consists of struggles over constituting hegemonic and common sense religious sentiments through drawing on the secular powers of the modern state. This politics entails contestations…
Jamaat-e-Islami Women in Pakistan: Vanguard of a New Modernity
Elke Winter, Us, Them, and Others: Pluralism and National Identity in Diverse Societies
Pakistani Nationalism and the State Marginalisation of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan
This paper examines the relationship between nationalism, state formation, and the marginalisation of national minorities through an historical focus on Pakistani state's relationship with the Ahmadiyya community, a self‐defined minority sect of Islam. In 1974, a constitutional amendment was enacted that effectively rendered the Ahmadiyya community a non‐Muslim minority, in spite of claims by the community that it was Muslim and hence not a minor…
Pakistani Nationalism and the State Marginalisation of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan
This paper examines the relationship between nationalism, state formation, and the marginalisation of national minorities through an historical focus on Pakistani state's relationship with the Ahmadiyya community, a self‐defined minority sect of Islam. In 1974, a constitutional amendment was enacted that effectively rendered the Ahmadiyya community a non‐Muslim minority, in spite of claims by the community that it was Muslim and hence not a minor…
Ritual cursing as an oath of submission: The problem of religious difference across Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan
This article undertakes a comparison between Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan with the aim of highlighting the similarities and differences between their respective state projects of crafting 'Islamic' polities. The comparison proceeds through a focus on the state-sanctioned practice of ritual cursing of Sunnis and Ahmadis in Safavid Iran and Pakistan respectively. In both cases, the states made extensive legal efforts to mark out these religious…
Religion, classification struggles, and the state's exercise of symbolic power
Decolonization Struggles at the United Nations: The Question of Algeria, 1955-1961
Although national self-determination emerged as an international legal norm with the formation of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, its implementation continued to be resisted by European colonial powers for decades after. This raises the following question: how was European colonial rule challenged at the UN? This article contends that existing accounts of decolonization have not fully theorized the processes through which colonialism was contest…
Secular power, law and the politics of religious sentiments
This paper undertakes a political sociology of religious sentiments by examining how social actors seek to make their religious sentiments legible and authoritative within structures of modern state governance. It argues that a central dimension of religious politics consists of struggles over constituting hegemonic and common sense religious sentiments through drawing on the secular powers of the modern state. This politics entails contestations…
Pakistani Nationalism and the State Marginalisation of the Ahmadiyya Community in Pakistan
This paper examines the relationship between nationalism, state formation, and the marginalisation of national minorities through an historical focus on Pakistani state's relationship with the Ahmadiyya community, a self‐defined minority sect of Islam. In 1974, a constitutional amendment was enacted that effectively rendered the Ahmadiyya community a non‐Muslim minority, in spite of claims by the community that it was Muslim and hence not a minor…
Elke Winter, Us, Them, and Others: Pluralism and National Identity in Diverse Societies
P akistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, came into existence on August 14, 1947, when British colonial rule in India ended. Pakistan's founding was preceded by a Muslim nationalist movement spearheaded by the All‐India Muslim League under the leadership of Muhammad Ali Jinnah. It was premised on the “two‐nation theory.” This ideology holds that Muslims and Hindus of the Indian subcontinent constitute two separate nations and a newly…
Secular power, law and the politics of religious sentiments
This paper undertakes a political sociology of religious sentiments by examining how social actors seek to make their religious sentiments legible and authoritative within structures of modern state governance. It argues that a central dimension of religious politics consists of struggles over constituting hegemonic and common sense religious sentiments through drawing on the secular powers of the modern state. This politics entails contestations…
Jamaat-e-Islami Women in Pakistan: Vanguard of a New Modernity
Politics of Desecularization: Law and the Minority Question in Pakistan
Over time the Pakistani state has moved from accommodating the Ahmadiyya community as full citizens of the state to forcibly declaring them non-Muslim and eventually criminalizing them for their religious beliefs. Politics of Desecularization deploys the 'Ahmadi question' to theorize a core feature of modern public Islam - its contested and unsettled relationship with the nation-state form. It posits that our current understandings of modern reli…
Imperial Ideologies, Transnational Activism
This article examines how a transnational religious movement that originated in British India, the Ahmadiyya movement, deployed the norm of religious freedom in the course of its expansion outside the British Empire. Ostracized by mainstream Muslims, Ahmadis used their position as imperial subjects to demand that the British protect their right to religious freedom in political spheres beyond the British Empire and irrespective of territorial jur…
Exploiting IoT and big data analytics: Defining Smart Digital City using real-time urban data
Jonathan Fox, The Unfree Exercise of Religion: A World Survey of Discrimination against Religious Minorities
Robin Dunford and Michael Neu. 2019. Just War and the Responsibility to Protect: A Critique . London: Zed Books
Robin Dunford and Michael Neu’s Just War and the Responsibility to Protect: A Critique is a brief, incisive book that compellingly critiques the United Nations’ doctrine of Responsibility to Protes
Unemployment and social stigma: Naming, blaming and shaming of educated youth in rural Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan
Purpose This article aims to highlight the stigmatization attached to the unemployment of educated youth in rural regions of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach The study explicates the subjective experiences of the youth as being unemployed and societal attitudes toward them through an in-depth qualitative approach. A total of 30 unemployed male individuals were interviewed through an interview guide. Findings Th…
Acquisition of Wh-Questions by Second Language Speakers of English in Pakistan
Purpose of the study: The purpose of the current study is to investigate the acquisition of Wh-questions of English by Urdu L1 speakers in Pakistan. Acquisition of different syntactic structures has been an attractive area of interest for the scholars working in the area of second language acquisition. The study draws on approaches of Universal Grammar (UG) and Second Language Acquisition (SLA). The researchers aim at finding out whether the seco…
Analysis and Forecastability of Market Model: Evidence From Pakistani Market Index and Emerging Market Index
Purpose of the Study: This study examines and analyzes the influence of the Market Model on the Market Level Return (KSE-100 index) and the Emerging Market Level Return (MSCI Index). Methodology: The study has employed the sample data of the companies’ representatives of the Oil and Gas Sector of Pakistan from July 2001 to June 2018 respectively. For estimation, the Panel Regression techniques are employed followed by the Forecast Error Statistic…
Decolonization Struggles at the United Nations: The Question of Algeria, 1955-1961
Although national self-determination emerged as an international legal norm with the formation of the United Nations (UN) in 1945, its implementation continued to be resisted by European colonial powers for decades after. This raises the following question: how was European colonial rule challenged at the UN? This article contends that existing accounts of decolonization have not fully theorized the processes through which colonialism was contest…
Religion, classification struggles, and the state's exercise of symbolic power
Ritual cursing as an oath of submission: The problem of religious difference across Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan
This article undertakes a comparison between Safavid Iran and modern Pakistan with the aim of highlighting the similarities and differences between their respective state projects of crafting 'Islamic' polities. The comparison proceeds through a focus on the state-sanctioned practice of ritual cursing of Sunnis and Ahmadis in Safavid Iran and Pakistan respectively. In both cases, the states made extensive legal efforts to mark out these religious…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (7 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (6 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Ideology (4 works) · Islam (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)