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    English Literature from the “Other” Perspective: A Thought and an Approach
    (CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2012-12) Salma, Umme
    English Literature as the knowledge of the former master is an exclusively challenging discipline to be focused from “the other” perspective, from Muslim perspective, one among many others. It is a bellicose field because in the postcolonial world its presence reminds of the colonial past, and declares the continuance of the myriad ideological projections and paradigmatic speculations of that past in the neocolonial form. Still postcolonial Indian Muslim societies are promoting and propagating English knowledge in every stage of educational institutions, and thus creating a culturally hybrid/syncretism nation which can neither accept Englishness entirely nor reject its own cultural inheritance and realities totally. Whereas other postcolonial nations can approve, accept and accelerate the mixed-up jumbled cultural syncretism gradually losing or conforming their native cultural signifiers with Western culture, Muslims cannot because the ideology and approach to life of Islam are straightly opposite to the English knowledge, emanated from the Judeo-Christian and Greco-Latin cultural heritage. Keeping in view the aforementioned ideas, the paper argues that this is high time to review this epistemological crisis from historical set up and to read English literature from the “Other” point of view. Therefore, it proposes some ways to re-read the English canonical compositions and puts forward as specimen the re-reading/teaching method of ENG: 2420, titled “English Poetry: 17th &18th Centuries” from the undergraduate syllabus of IIUC.
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    THE MANAGEMENT OF ZAKAT BY CENTER FOR ZAKAT MANAGEMENT (CZM): A MALAYSIAN EXPERIENCE
    (International Journal of Zakat and Islamic Philanthropy, 2020-03) Islam, Mohammad Saiful; Salma, Umme
    Zakat plays a significant role in the Muslim socioeconomic development. It is mentioned in eighty two places in the Holy Quran. However, zakat is an obligation for specific Muslims providing a fixed amount of their wealth with certain conditions and requirements for beneficiaries called al-mustahuqqun. Moreover, the concept of zakat exemplifies a strong concern with social and economic justice. In addition, the redistribution of economic impact of zakat depends on how it is administered, especially with regard to collection and distribution. Unfortunately, there was no comprehensive zakat institution has been set up to collect and distributes of zakat in Bangladesh except Center for zakat Management (CZM). Presently, Malaysia became a hub of Islamic financial Institutions for Islamic banking as well as for zakat management. This study discusses how to collect and disburse zakat in Bangladesh based on CZM and Malaysia experience