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Academic Qualification
- Feminist Comparative Literature - Doctor of Philosophy, University of Portsmouth
- English Literature - Masters Degree, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
- English Language - Bachelor Degree, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh
Md. Mahmudul Hasan (Prof. Dr.)
Professor
IIUM Gombak Campus
ABDULHAMID ABUSULAYMAN KULLIYYAH OF ISLAMIC REVEALED KNOWLEDGE AND HUMAN SCIENCES
mmhasan@iium.edu.my
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Expert Profile
I joined the Department of English Language and Literature at International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) on June 1, 2010. The courses I have taught at IIUM include South Asian Literature in English, Islamic Literature in English, Twentieth-Century British Literature, Islamization of English Studies, and World Literature. I have completed supervising five PhD, nine Masters, and a number of FYP theses mainly in the fields of English, postcolonial/global, Muslim diasporic, and feminist literatures. My work at IIUM manifests an interplay between Islam and English and postcolonial studies.
I received pre-university education under Bangladesh Madrasah Education Board where the curriculum included courses in Arabic and Islamic studies along with more general subjects. My twelve-year madrasah education has been rewarding, as it helped me lay the foundation of my knowledge of Islam as well as Arabic and Urdu languages, along with Bangla and English.
My articles have appeared in some of the best journals in the fields of literary, postcolonial/global, South Asian, and cultural studies, including Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Paedagogica Historica, South Asia Research, The Muslim World, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Hawwa, History of Education & Children’s Literature, and Asiatic.
During my PhD years, I supply taught at British primary and secondary schools and team taught a course titled “Text in the City” at the University of Portsmouth.
I write op-eds and literary pieces mainly for The Daily Star (Bangladesh), New Age (Bangladesh), and The New Straits Times (Malaysia). I contributed essays to now extinct Literature @ Portsmouth.
I welcome research students wishing to work in the broad fields of English and comparative/postcolonial/global literature, Islamic literature, feminist literature, and Islamic perspectives on English studies.
Since completing a PhD in comparative/global literature at Portsmouth (UK), I have taught at the University of Dhaka (3 years) and IIUM (13 years) in addition to doing a postdoctoral stint at Heidelberg in Germany. I have presented papers at conferences held in the USA, UK, Australia, Japan, Canada, Malta, and other countries. I have published in the fields of feminist, postcolonial, Islamic, South Asian, and Muslim diasporic literatures as well as Islam and English studies with presses such as the Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Brill, Georgia Southern University, IIIT, IIUM, Orient BlackSwan, Routledge, SAGE, Wiley-Blackwell, and others. I guest-edited (with Mohammad A. Quayum of Flinders University) “Special Focus: Bangladeshi Literature in English,” Journal of Postcolonial Writing (Routledge), 58:6, 2022. Since 2020, I have been editing the Scopus-indexed, open-access journal Asiatic: https://journals.iium.edu.my/asiatic/index.php/ajell/issue/archive
I am the author of Islamic Perspectives on Twentieth-Century English Literature (2017). My coedited books include Bangladeshi Literature in English: Critical Essays and Interviews (Routledge, 2024) Bangladeshi Literature in English: A Critical Anthology (Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 2021), A Feminist Foremother: Critical Essays on Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (Orient BlackSwan, 2017), Islam and Gender: The Bangladesh Perspective (Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought, 2016), Tales of Mothers (Iman, vols. 1 & 2, 2015 & 2019), Civilization and Society: Essays on Politics and Culture of South Asia and Other Issues (Academia Publishing House, 2022/1994), and Displaced & Forgotten (Iman, 2017). The last title contains memoirs of refugees from Afghanistan, Myanmar, Palestine, Somalia, and Syria as well as interviews with those from Cambodia, Kashmir, and Syria.
My articles have appeared in some of the best journals in the fields of literary, postcolonial/global, South Asian, and cultural studies, including Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, Paedagogica Historica, South Asia Research, The Muslim World, Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Hawwa, History of Education & Children’s Literature, and Asiatic.
My PhD thesis “Introducing Rokeya’s Plural Feminism” completed at the University of Portsmouth in 2007 focused on comparing the South Asian writer Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain’s (1880-1932) works with those of Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-97), Virginia Woolf (1882-1941), Attia Hosain (1913-98), and Monica Ali (1967-). My interest in South Asian literature was further stimulated when I researched South Asian Muslim feminist literature during my postdoctoral work at Heidelberg in 2009-2010.
During my PhD years, I supply taught at British primary and secondary schools and team taught a course titled “Text in the City” at the University of Portsmouth.
I write op-eds and literary pieces mainly for The Daily Star (Bangladesh), New Age (Bangladesh), and The New Straits Times (Malaysia). I contributed essays to now extinct Literature @ Portsmouth.
I welcome research students wishing to work in the broad fields of English and comparative/postcolonial/global literature, Islamic literature, feminist literature, and Islamic perspectives on English studies.
More details about my research are available at http://irep.iium.edu.my/view/creators/Hasan=3AMd=2E_Mahmudul=3A=3A.html
Area of Specialisation
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Religious Studies ~ Comparative Religion - Comparing English and South Asian literature.
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Arts and Culture ~ Traditional Arts and Culture - South Asian Muslim literature; South Asian Muslim women's writing; and South Asian literature in English.
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ Religious Studies ~ Quranic and Hadith Studies - Islam and English studies.
- Humanities ~ Humanities ~ History and Philosophy of Sciences and Medicine ~ History and Philosophy of Science and Technology - Feminist literary criticism; postcolonial feminism; women in Islam (Islamic feminism)
Professional Membership
- 2008 - 2019: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (member ), Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought (BIIT)
- 2022: Member of Profesional Body / Association: (Coordinator ), Forum for Bangladesh Studies
Teaching Responsibilities
20TH CENTURY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE | 2011/2012 |
BRITISH LITERATURE UP TO THE 19TH CENTURY | 2010/2011 |
ENGLISH LITERATURE IN THE 20TH CENTURY | 2021/2022 2019/2020 2018/2019 |
ENGLISH LITERATURE: TWENTIETH CENTURY AND CONTEMPORARY | 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012 |
FINAL YEAR PROJECT I | 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 |
FINAL YEAR PROJECT II | 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 |
ISLAMIC LITERATURE IN ENGLISH | 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 2021/2022 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 |
ISLAMISATION OF ENGLISH STUDIES | 2024/2025 2023/2024 2022/2023 |
ISLAMIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE | 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013 2011/2012 |
LANGUAGE FOR OCCUPATIONAL PURPOSES | 2010/2011 |
LITERARY GENRES I : POETRY | 2015/2016 2014/2015 2013/2014 2012/2013 |
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY | 2020/2021 2019/2020 |
RESEARCH PAPER 1 | 2020/2021 2017/2018 |
RESEARCH PAPER 1 (LITERARY STUDIES) | 2017/2018 |
RESEARCH PAPER II (LITERARY STUDIES) | 2017/2018 2016/2017 |
SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE IN ENGLISH | 2019/2020 2010/2011 |
TOPICS IN ISLAMIC LITERATURE | 2020/2021 2019/2020 2018/2019 2017/2018 2016/2017 2015/2016 2011/2012 2010/2011 |
TOPICS IN ISLAMIC LITERATURE I | 2020/2021 |
TOPICS IN ISLAMIC LITERATURE II | 2023/2024 2021/2022 2017/2018 2016/2017 |
WORLD LITERATURE II | 2010/2011 |
WORLD LITERATURE III: WOMEN'S WRITING AROUND THE WORL | 2015/2016 |
Supervision
''A Tower Of Light In An Ocean Of Darkness" : Reading The Poetry Of Robert Browning From The Islamic Perspective.
Ph.D
Completed
2022
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The Art Of Transgression In Rabindranath Tagore'S Works On Screen: An Auteurist Study.
Ph.D
Completed
2021
Main Supervisor
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Religion, Colonialism And Gender: A Postcolonial Feminist Study Of Selected Works Of North African And Asian Muslim Women Writers.
Ph.D
Completed
2017
Main Supervisor
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Women And Witchcraft In Selected Jacobean Plays: A Feminist Study.
Ph.D
Completed
2016
Main Supervisor
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Identity, Memory, History and Generational Dynamics in Algerian Women's Writing. Identity, Memory, History And Generational Dynamics In Algerian Women'S Writing.
Ph.D
In Progress
Main Supervisor
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Immanent Critique In Contemporary Muslim Women’S Writings: Am Analysis Of Mohja Kahf’S And Randa Abdel- Fattah’S Novels..
Ph.D
In Progress
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Colonialism, Gender, Religion And Friendship: A Post-Colonial Exploration Of Raden Kartini’S Letters To Stella Zeehandelaar.
Master
Completed
2024
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Comparing Two Genres Of Life Writing: A Study Of Haley'S The Autobiography Of Malcolm X And Marable'S Malcolm X: A Life Of Reinvention.
Master
Completed
2021
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Islamic Adaptation Of Classical Western Fairy Tales: A Study Of Selected Works Of Gilani-Williams
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Master
Completed
2021
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Islamic Adaptation Of Classical Western Fairy Tales: A Study Of Selected Works Of Gilani-Williams
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Master
Completed
2021
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A Study Of Magic Realism And Storytelling In Salman Rushdie'S Haroun And The Sea Of Stories (1990) And Luka And The Fire Of Life (2010).
Master
Completed
2018
Co-supervisor
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The Bildungsroman Of Diasporic Muslim Women: A Study Of Mohja Kahf'S The Girl In The Tangerine Scarf (2006) And Umm Zakiyyah'S Realities Of Submission (2008).
Master
Completed
2017
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Convert Experiences: A Study Of The Dialogical Self In Lena Winfrey Seder'S The Metamorphosis Of A Muslim: Autobiography Of My Convesion And Kristiane Backer'S From Mtv To Mecca: How Inspired My Life.
Master
Completed
2017
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The Lofty Eyes: A Study Of V.S. Naipal'S Postcolonial And Tourism In Among The Believers: An Islamic Journey And Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among Converted Peoples.
Master
Completed
2017
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Countering "Misery Genre" : A Postcolonial Study Of Monica Ali'S Brick Lane And Shelina Janmohamed'S Love In A Headscart.
Master
Completed
2016
Main Supervisor
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Representations Of Bearded Muslim Men And Hijab-Wearing Muslim Women In Post-9/11 Fiction: A Study Of Mohsin Hamid'S The Reluctant Fundamentalist And Amy Waldman'S The Submission.
Master
Completed
2016
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Trauma Narratives In Muslim Women'S Autobiographies: A Study Of Azar Nafisi'S Reading Lolita In Tehran And Tehmina Durrani'S My Feudal Lord.
Master
Completed
2013
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The Dynamic Interaction Between Islamic Civilization And Bangla Language: An Analysis Of Its Utility In Islamic Propagation.
Master
In Progress
Main Supervisor
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The Problem Os State In The Thought Of Allama Iqbal'.
Master
In Progress
Main Supervisor
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Research Projects
Completed
2021 - 2021 | Editing and Introducing Syed Sajjad Husain's Civilisation and Society (1994) |
2020 - 2020 | Twentieth-Century English Literature |
2020 - 2020 | Major Islamic Writers |
2018 - 2018 | Islamic Perspectives on Twentieth-Century English Literature |
2016 - 2018 | Islamization and Integration of Knowledge in Rokeya's Works |
2014 - 2016 | Textbook Project, International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT, USA) |
2013 - 2016 | Islamization of English Literary Studies (Twentieth Century) |
2013 - 2014 | Imaginaries Versus Lived Experienced: Comparing Rokeya's and Taslima's Representations of Europe |
2012 - 2013 | Graduate Citizenry: Higher Education, Patriotism and Nation Building in Malaysia |
2010 - 2011 | Taslima Nasrin's Criticism of Islam: An Academic Response |
On-Going
2021 - Present | Islamic Perspectives on Victorian English Literature |
2021 - Present | An Introduction to Islamic Literature in English and Translation |
2011 - Present | Doris Lessing and Feminism: An Academic Response (RU 2011) |
Publications
Article
Conference or Workshop Item
Book
Book Section
2023 | AbdulHamid A. AbuSulayman: an intellectual trailblazer in educational and social reform. In: AHAS KIRKHS, IIUM, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN: 9789671981276, pp. 130-139 |
2023 | Conclusion: Kamal Hassan, IIUM, and the ship hadith. In: IIUM Press, ISBN: 9789674913441, pp. 134-139 |
2023 | Introduction: Kamal Hassan’s scholarly career and this festschrift. In: IIUM Press, ISBN: 9789674913441, pp. 1-13 |
2023 | Mohd. Kamal Hassan’s educational ideas and IIUM. In: IIUM Press, ISBN: 9789674913441, pp. 106-121 |
2022 | Foreword. In: Islamic Literary Society, ISBN: , pp. 7-9 |
2022 | Introduction. In: Academia Publishing House Limited - APL, ISBN: 978-984-35-1685-5, pp. vii-xvii |
2021 | Bangladeshi anglophone literature: an old and evolving tradition. In: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, ISBN: , pp. 1-16 |
2020 | Bangladeshi English. In: John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 9781118791806, pp. 297-315 |
2019 | Challenges of womanhood and motherhood. In: Iman Publication, ISBN: 978-983-2423-70-6, pp. 199-216 |
2019 | Introduction: a young Muslim's guide to religion in the world. In: BIIT Publishers, ISBN: 978-984-8471-66-1, pp. ix-xix |
2019 | Introduction: a young Muslim's guide to religions in the world. In: BIIT Publishers, ISBN: 978-984-8471-66-1, pp. ix-xix |
2017 | Conclusion: stranded refugees and the global conscience. In: Iman Publication Sdn Bhd, ISBN: 978-983-2423-44-7, pp. 145-168 |
2017 | Conclusion: stranded refugees and the global conscience. In: Iman Publication Sdn Bhd, ISBN: 978-983-2423-44-7, pp. 145-168 |
2017 | Introduction. In: Orient Blackswan (formerly Orient Longman), ISBN: 978-93-86296-00-9, pp. xi-xxvii |
2017 | The private-public dichotomy in Rokeya's works. In: Orient Blackswan (formerly Orient Longman), ISBN: 978-93-86296-00-9, pp. 154-172 |
2016 | Working for women’s rights in Bangladesh. In: Bangladesh Institute of Islamic Thought (BIIT), ISBN: 978-984-8471-43-2, pp. 1-10 |
2015 | Conclusion: reaffirming and celebrating motherhood. In: Iman Publications , ISBN: 978-983-2423-28-7, pp. 161-175 |
2011 | Introduction: crossing boundaries and celebrating diversity. In: IIUM Press, ISBN: 9789674181468, pp. 9-15 |
2007 | The trope of home and the representation of Muslim women in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column. In: A P H Publishing Corporation, ISBN: 81-313-0150-8, pp. 61-86 |
2007 | The trope of home and the representation of Muslim women in Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and in Attia Hosain's Sunlight on a Broken Column. In: A P H Publishing Corporation, ISBN: 81-313-0150-8, pp. 61-86 |
Monograph
2016 | Islamization of English literary studies (Twentieth Century). In: , |