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

• 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
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/34801/1/Mahmud_article_asiatic_published.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/34801/; http://asiatic.iium.edu.my/v7n2/

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...