Editing Shemeem Burney Abbas

{{Infobox person
|name=Shemeem Burney Abbas |image=Shemeem Burney Abbas.jpg|image_size=|caption=|birth_date=|birth_place=|death_date=|nationality=Pakistani|religion=|alma_mater=|occupation=Assistant professor and Author|personal website=|spouse=|parents=|children=|awards=}} '''Shemeem Burney Abbas''' is an associate professor at the State University of New York  at Purchase College.

== Education ==

* M.A. in Creative Writing: Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry from The University of Texas at Austin in 2002
* PhD in Foreign Language Education/Applied Linguistics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1992
* M.A. in English Literature from The University of Leeds, England in 1968
* Honor B.A. in English literature from Panjab university in 1964
* Honor M.A. in Philosophy & Political Science from Panjabi university in 1964

== Career ==

* Professor of Political Science, Gender Studies and Literature at Purchase College in State University of New York, 2005 to present.
* Instructor in English and Rhetoric & Composition in The University of Texas at Austin , 2000-2002.
* Instructor in English and Rhetoric & Composition in The University of Texas at Austin, 1988-1992.
* Professor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor of English Language & Applied Linguistics in Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, 1980 to 2003.
* Assist ant Professor of English in Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Girls College of Education, Riyadh, 1977-1978.
* Assistant Professor of English in Federal Government Women's Colleges, Islamabad, 1969-1978.

== Books ==

* [https://www.amazon.com/Pakistans-Blasphemy-Laws-Islamic-Empires/dp/0292745303 Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws: From Islamic Empires to the Taliban, 2013]
*[https://www.amazon.com/Female-Voice-Sufi-Ritual-Devotional/dp/0292725922 The Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India, 2002]

== Articles in journals/collections ==

* [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230301619_Risky_Knowledge_in_Risky_Times_Political_Discourses_of_Qawwali_and_Sufiana-kalam_in_Pakistan-Indian_Sufism “Risky Knowledge in Risky Times: Political Discourses of Qawwali & Sufiana-kalam in Pakistan Indian Sufism.”  In Muslim World (Special Issue) ,  2007]
* “Sakineh: The Narrator of Karbala,” in [[The women of Karbala: ritual performance and symbolic discourses in modern Shi’i Islam|The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi‘i Islam]], ed. Kamran Agahie In University of Texas Press, December, 2005.
* [http://www.shemeem.com/articles/shemeem-abbas-LITERARY-ORALITY2.pdf “Perspectives on a Grassroots Theory of Literary Orality & Aesthetics.”  In Journal of Social 1997]
* [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230082229_The_power_of_English_in_Pakistan “] [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230082229_The_power_of_English_in_Pakistan The Power of English in Pakistan.” in World Englishes ,1993]

==  Her vision towards Tragedy of Karbala ==
In one of her articles “ Sakineh: The Narrator of Karbala” , she introduced a common ritual  “Majles” as an event holding every year in [[Muharram]]. In this ritual event , in Pakistan, people try to show the great role of [[Imam Hussain]]’s daughter [[Sakina bint Hussain|Sakina]] due to the fact that she’d been narrating the tragedy of [[Karbala]] after it happened. The considerable fact is that Sakineh’s age is not known, but she was probably too young to witness a tragedy like Tragedy of Karbala. They estimated that her age was around 5-10.

In Majles, there is a special religious chant that both men and women participate in singing but there is another item that is involved called “ Nowhehs”. Little girls are trained to sing these Nowhehs in ritual events of Muharram since Sakineh was just a little girl who bravely narrated the tragedy of Karbala. 

At the end of the article, she introduced another ritual called “ Hussain matam”. During this event, for several minutes, the hostess lead the Nowhehs and extractors chant “ Husayn Husayn Husayn” , meanwhile they beat their chests. 
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