Rizwan Ahmad
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3780735 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rizwan Ahmad |
| PRENOMES | Rizwan |
| SOBRENOME | Ahmad |
| ASSINATURA | AHMAD R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Qatar University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5587-6603 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2008 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
A sociolinguistics of Islam
We are honoured to present this special issue, A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith, in the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. This curated ...
Exploring a Sociolinguistics of Islam
The ‘sociolinguistics of Islam’ refers to the exploration of how language and society intersect within contexts where the Islamic faith is the defining worldview shaping language, literacy, and other processes of semiosis. This article proposes a heuristic that extends sociolinguistic scholarship by advancing a research agenda focussed on Islamic sociolinguistic ecologies. We demonstrate how Islam’s rather stable textual historicity is in constan…
Assessing Supply Chain Resilience in Pandemics
This study offers a modified three-dimensional Haddon Matrix to assess intervention and coping strategies adopted by various organizations for the preparation, response and recovery phases of the COVID-19-related supply chain disruptions. Evidence is gathered from available qualitative information sources concerning the current COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 35 academic and non-academic sources were used for data analysis. These sources were analyz…
Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050
BACKGROUND: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes…
Exploration of Ethical Leadership in Teachers in Government High Schools of Lahore
The idea of ethics is frequently discussed in educational settings because it is part of daily life for ethical leadership students. Ethical leadership is someone who adheres to the rules because they are significant to him. The purpose of the research was explore the perception of SSTs regarding ethical leadership (EL) as well as the difference in it with respect to demographic characteristics of SSTs. The research was quantitative and descripti…
Relationship between Work-Family Conflict and Life Satisfaction in Secondary Schools of Sargodha
The link between Work-Family Conflict (WFC) and Life Satisfaction was examined in a quantitative study of secondary school teachers in Lahore, Pakistan (LS). The researcher hopes that the study might be useful from all viewpoints, including managerial, academic, and theoretical ones. Lahore district served as the population of the study that consisted of 179 boys and 152 girls high schools of Lahore. In Lahore there are 1716 female and 1445 male …
Impact of Head Teachers' Transformational Style on Students Achievements
This research was done to explore the head teachers’ transformational leadership style, to see its impact on students’ achievement. The descriptive quantitative and survey approach was applied to conduct this research. The data were attained from secondary school teachers about the transformational leadership style of their heads through a five-point questionnaire. The matriculation results of students from sampled schools were also taken to see …
Relationship of Teachers' Commitment and Turnover Intentions at the Secondary Level
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between teacher's commitment and turnover intentions among the teachers working in secondary schools in the district of Lahore. The data was collected through a self-design questionnaire from 235 male and female teachers of Lahore who were selected by simple random method of sampling. Graphs correlations t-test and one-way ANOVA were used through the SPSS software package for the data anal…
Graphic politics in Eastern India
Graphic politics in Eastern India: Script and the quest for autonomyNishaant Choksi (2021)London: Bloomsbury Academic. Pp. 224ISBN: 9781350215924 (pbk)ISBN: 9781350159587 (hbk)ISBN: 9781350159594 (Ebook)ISBN: 9781350159600 (Epub)
Muslim personal names in Urdu
Based on an analysis of a corpus, in this study we examine: (a) the linguistic structure of Muslim personal names, (b) their etymological sources, and (c) some changing patterns among the younger generation. Firstly, we present a typology of the naming patterns by showing that there are four major types - one-part, two-part, three-part, and four-part names. While one-part names are formed from the given name only, the other three types are comple…
Laboring to communicate
This study examines the communication strategies employed by Qatar’s government in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. The study contributes to a growing body of work on the sociolinguistics of crisis communication. We focus on the use of South and Southeast Asian languages, spoken largely by blue-collar migrant workers, which are often seen as peripheral even though they are spoken by a large segment of the population. The deployment of these la…
Analysis of Media Bias—Glenn Beck TV Shows
This study provides an overview of the media’s role in shaping public discourse and belief through framing news stories in a biased perspective and setting an agenda that is in keeping with the interests of the corporate and institutional funders of the media apparatus. Support for such an analysis is provided by a literature review that covers many critical aspects of news framing, agenda setting and cultivation theory, especially with respect t…
Ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry, biological activities, and therapeutic applications of Cedrela serrata Royle
Traditional uses, Phyto-chemistry and pharmacological activities of Tagetes Patula L
Ethnopharmacological uses, phytochemistry, biological activities of Debregeasia salicifolia
My name is Khan… from the epiglottis
Many recent studies, academic and non-academic alike, have argued that the use of Urdu in Bollywood has started to decline. These studies, important as they are, however, suffer from some limitations. They are either impressionistic or based on non-representative data. Furthermore, they do not specify the object of the study or the site of the assumed decline of Urdu. Therefore, it remains vague which element of Urdu, for example sounds, words, s…
Recovering Signals with Unknown Sparsity in Multiple Dictionaries
Expatriate Languages in Kuwait
Following the rise of oil-based economies after the 1950s, the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries became extremely attractive to workers from other Arab countries and beyond. Initially, Arabs were a majority in the expatriate workforce but were gradually outnumbered by Asians. Consequently, the GCC countries, which were monolingual in Arabic, became multilingual, with Urdu, Malayalam, Tagalog, Hindi, Singhalese, and Bengali used widely …
Polyphony of Urdu in Post-colonial North India
Many scholars, politicians, and the lay people alike believe that Urdu in North India symbolizes a Muslim identity and culture. Based on an eight-month long ethnographic study and quantitative language data collected in Old Delhi, this article challenges this notion and shows that the symbolic meanings of Urdu have been mutating in post-colonial India. A cross-generational study involving both Muslims and Hindus shows that different generations a…
Urdu in Devanagari
In sociolinguistics, Urdu and Hindi are considered to be textbook examples of digraphia-a linguistic situation in which varieties of the same language are written in different scripts. Urdu has traditionally been written in the Arabic script, whereas Hindi is written in Devanagari. Analyzing the recent orthographic practice of writing Urdu in Devanagari, this article challenges the traditional ideology that the choice of script is crucial in diff…
Scripting a new identity
Scripting a new identity
Laboring to communicate
This study examines the communication strategies employed by Qatar’s government in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. The study contributes to a growing body of work on the sociolinguistics of crisis communication. We focus on the use of South and Southeast Asian languages, spoken largely by blue-collar migrant workers, which are often seen as peripheral even though they are spoken by a large segment of the population. The deployment of these la…
Urdu in Devanagari
In sociolinguistics, Urdu and Hindi are considered to be textbook examples of digraphia-a linguistic situation in which varieties of the same language are written in different scripts. Urdu has traditionally been written in the Arabic script, whereas Hindi is written in Devanagari. Analyzing the recent orthographic practice of writing Urdu in Devanagari, this article challenges the traditional ideology that the choice of script is crucial in diff…
Analysis of Media Bias—Glenn Beck TV Shows
This study provides an overview of the media’s role in shaping public discourse and belief through framing news stories in a biased perspective and setting an agenda that is in keeping with the interests of the corporate and institutional funders of the media apparatus. Support for such an analysis is provided by a literature review that covers many critical aspects of news framing, agenda setting and cultivation theory, especially with respect t…
Scripting a new identity
Urdu in Devanagari
In sociolinguistics, Urdu and Hindi are considered to be textbook examples of digraphia-a linguistic situation in which varieties of the same language are written in different scripts. Urdu has traditionally been written in the Arabic script, whereas Hindi is written in Devanagari. Analyzing the recent orthographic practice of writing Urdu in Devanagari, this article challenges the traditional ideology that the choice of script is crucial in diff…
Polyphony of Urdu in Post-colonial North India
Many scholars, politicians, and the lay people alike believe that Urdu in North India symbolizes a Muslim identity and culture. Based on an eight-month long ethnographic study and quantitative language data collected in Old Delhi, this article challenges this notion and shows that the symbolic meanings of Urdu have been mutating in post-colonial India. A cross-generational study involving both Muslims and Hindus shows that different generations a…
Expatriate Languages in Kuwait
Following the rise of oil-based economies after the 1950s, the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries became extremely attractive to workers from other Arab countries and beyond. Initially, Arabs were a majority in the expatriate workforce but were gradually outnumbered by Asians. Consequently, the GCC countries, which were monolingual in Arabic, became multilingual, with Urdu, Malayalam, Tagalog, Hindi, Singhalese, and Bengali used widely …
Recovering Signals with Unknown Sparsity in Multiple Dictionaries
My name is Khan… from the epiglottis
Many recent studies, academic and non-academic alike, have argued that the use of Urdu in Bollywood has started to decline. These studies, important as they are, however, suffer from some limitations. They are either impressionistic or based on non-representative data. Furthermore, they do not specify the object of the study or the site of the assumed decline of Urdu. Therefore, it remains vague which element of Urdu, for example sounds, words, s…
Ethnopharmacological uses, phytochemistry, biological activities of Debregeasia salicifolia
Ethnopharmacology, phytochemistry, biological activities, and therapeutic applications of Cedrela serrata Royle
Traditional uses, Phyto-chemistry and pharmacological activities of Tagetes Patula L
Laboring to communicate
This study examines the communication strategies employed by Qatar’s government in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. The study contributes to a growing body of work on the sociolinguistics of crisis communication. We focus on the use of South and Southeast Asian languages, spoken largely by blue-collar migrant workers, which are often seen as peripheral even though they are spoken by a large segment of the population. The deployment of these la…
Analysis of Media Bias—Glenn Beck TV Shows
This study provides an overview of the media’s role in shaping public discourse and belief through framing news stories in a biased perspective and setting an agenda that is in keeping with the interests of the corporate and institutional funders of the media apparatus. Support for such an analysis is provided by a literature review that covers many critical aspects of news framing, agenda setting and cultivation theory, especially with respect t…
Global, regional, and national burden of diabetes from 1990 to 2021, with projections of prevalence to 2050
BACKGROUND: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability worldwide, and affects people regardless of country, age group, or sex. Using the most recent evidentiary and analytical framework from the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD), we produced location-specific, age-specific, and sex-specific estimates of diabetes prevalence and burden from 1990 to 2021, the proportion of type 1 and type 2 diabetes…
Exploration of Ethical Leadership in Teachers in Government High Schools of Lahore
The idea of ethics is frequently discussed in educational settings because it is part of daily life for ethical leadership students. Ethical leadership is someone who adheres to the rules because they are significant to him. The purpose of the research was explore the perception of SSTs regarding ethical leadership (EL) as well as the difference in it with respect to demographic characteristics of SSTs. The research was quantitative and descripti…
Relationship between Work-Family Conflict and Life Satisfaction in Secondary Schools of Sargodha
The link between Work-Family Conflict (WFC) and Life Satisfaction was examined in a quantitative study of secondary school teachers in Lahore, Pakistan (LS). The researcher hopes that the study might be useful from all viewpoints, including managerial, academic, and theoretical ones. Lahore district served as the population of the study that consisted of 179 boys and 152 girls high schools of Lahore. In Lahore there are 1716 female and 1445 male …
Impact of Head Teachers' Transformational Style on Students Achievements
This research was done to explore the head teachers’ transformational leadership style, to see its impact on students’ achievement. The descriptive quantitative and survey approach was applied to conduct this research. The data were attained from secondary school teachers about the transformational leadership style of their heads through a five-point questionnaire. The matriculation results of students from sampled schools were also taken to see …
Relationship of Teachers' Commitment and Turnover Intentions at the Secondary Level
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between teacher's commitment and turnover intentions among the teachers working in secondary schools in the district of Lahore. The data was collected through a self-design questionnaire from 235 male and female teachers of Lahore who were selected by simple random method of sampling. Graphs correlations t-test and one-way ANOVA were used through the SPSS software package for the data anal…
Graphic politics in Eastern India
Graphic politics in Eastern India: Script and the quest for autonomyNishaant Choksi (2021)London: Bloomsbury Academic. Pp. 224ISBN: 9781350215924 (pbk)ISBN: 9781350159587 (hbk)ISBN: 9781350159594 (Ebook)ISBN: 9781350159600 (Epub)
Muslim personal names in Urdu
Based on an analysis of a corpus, in this study we examine: (a) the linguistic structure of Muslim personal names, (b) their etymological sources, and (c) some changing patterns among the younger generation. Firstly, we present a typology of the naming patterns by showing that there are four major types - one-part, two-part, three-part, and four-part names. While one-part names are formed from the given name only, the other three types are comple…
Exploring a Sociolinguistics of Islam
The ‘sociolinguistics of Islam’ refers to the exploration of how language and society intersect within contexts where the Islamic faith is the defining worldview shaping language, literacy, and other processes of semiosis. This article proposes a heuristic that extends sociolinguistic scholarship by advancing a research agenda focussed on Islamic sociolinguistic ecologies. We demonstrate how Islam’s rather stable textual historicity is in constan…
Assessing Supply Chain Resilience in Pandemics
This study offers a modified three-dimensional Haddon Matrix to assess intervention and coping strategies adopted by various organizations for the preparation, response and recovery phases of the COVID-19-related supply chain disruptions. Evidence is gathered from available qualitative information sources concerning the current COVID-19 pandemic. In total, 35 academic and non-academic sources were used for data analysis. These sources were analyz…
A sociolinguistics of Islam
We are honoured to present this special issue, A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith, in the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development. This curated ...
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