Commemorating Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and contextualising her work in South Asian Muslim feminism

Colonial Muslim South Asia had two leading cultural centres: Bengal and North India. As part of the far-reaching reformist movement during the colonial period and beyond, intellectual work from these two places included a powerful segment of feminist writing which has remained the harbinger of the...

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Main Author:	Hasan, Md. Mahmudul
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	International Islamic University Malaysia 2013
Subjects:	BP160 General works on Islam BP88 Individual authors, A-Z BP89 History and criticism PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PK Indo-Iranian PN0080 Criticism PN0441 Literary History
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spelling	iium-348012014-03-13T05:09:18Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/34801/ Commemorating Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and contextualising her work in South Asian Muslim feminism Hasan, Md. Mahmudul BP160 General works on Islam BP88 Individual authors, A-Z BP89 History and criticism PE English PI Oriental languages and literatures PK Indo-Iranian PN0080 Criticism PN0441 Literary History Colonial Muslim South Asia had two leading cultural centres: Bengal and North India. As part of the far-reaching reformist movement during the colonial period and beyond, intellectual work from these two places included a powerful segment of feminist writing which has remained the harbinger of the women’s rights movement among Muslims of this region. It is important to give research attention to South Asian Muslim writers, many of whom have been marginalised mainly because of the dominance of, and sometimes overriding and disproportionate focus on, their Hindu counterparts. Against this background, this article discusses the life, incredible commitment, sacrifice and feminist accomplishments of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). It will also contextualise her ideas in the broader South Asian Muslim feminist tradition. International Islamic University Malaysia 2013-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/34801/1/Mahmud_article_asiatic_published.pdf Hasan, Md. Mahmudul (2013) Commemorating Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and contextualising her work in South Asian Muslim feminism. Asiatic, 7 (2). pp. 39-59. ISSN 1985-3106 http://asiatic.iium.edu.my/v7n2/
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description	Colonial Muslim South Asia had two leading cultural centres: Bengal and North India. As part of the far-reaching reformist movement during the colonial period and beyond, intellectual work from these two places included a powerful segment of feminist writing which has remained the harbinger of the women’s rights movement among Muslims of this region. It is important to give research attention to South Asian Muslim writers, many of whom have been marginalised mainly because of the dominance of, and sometimes overriding and disproportionate focus on, their Hindu counterparts. Against this background, this article discusses the life, incredible commitment, sacrifice and feminist accomplishments of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). It will also contextualise her ideas in the broader South Asian Muslim feminist tradition.
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title	Commemorating Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and contextualising her work in South Asian Muslim feminism
title_short	Commemorating Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and contextualising her work in South Asian Muslim feminism
title_full	Commemorating Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and contextualising her work in South Asian Muslim feminism
title_fullStr	Commemorating Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and contextualising her work in South Asian Muslim feminism
title_full_unstemmed	Commemorating Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and contextualising her work in South Asian Muslim feminism
title_sort	commemorating rokeya sakhawat hossain and contextualising her work in south asian muslim feminism
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Commemorating Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and contextualising her work in South Asian Muslim feminism

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