Shemeem Burney Abbas
Shemeem Burney Abbas | |
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| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Occupation | associate professor and Author |
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 frome The University of Texas at Austin in 2002
- PShemeem Burney AbbashD in Foreign Language Education/Applied Linguistics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1992
- M.A. iShemeem Burney Abbasn English Literature from The University of Leeds, England in 1968
- HShemeem Burney Abbasonor B.A. in English literature from Panjab university in 1964
- HShemeem Burney Abbasonor M.A. in Philosophy & Political Science from Panjabi university in 1964
CShemeem Burney Abbasareer
- Professor of Political Science, Gender Studies and Literature at Purchase College in State University of New York, 2005 to present.
- InstruShemeem Burney Abbasctor in English and Rhetoric & Composition in The University of Texas at Austin , 2000-2002.
- IShemeem Burney Abbasnstructor in English and Rhetoric & Composition in The University of Texas at Austin, 1988-1992.
- PShemeem Burney Abbasrofessor, Associate Professor and Assistant Professor of English Language & Applied Linguistics in Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, 1980 to 2003.
- AssistShemeem Burney Abbasant Professor of English in Royal Government of Saudi Arabia, Girls College of Education, Riyadh, 1977-1978.
- AShemeem Burney Abbasssistant Professor of English in Federal Government Women's Colleges, Islamabad, 1969-1978.
BShemeem Burney Abbasooks
- Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws: From Islamic Empires to the Taliban, 2013
- TShemeem Burney Abbashe Female Voice in Sufi Ritual: Devotional Practices of Pakistan and India, 2002
AShemeem Burney Abbasrticles in journals/collections
- “Risky Knowledge in Risky Times: Political Discourses of Qawwali & Sufiana-kalam in Pakistan Indian Sufism.” In Muslim World (SpeShemeem Burney Abbascial Issue) , 2007
- “Sakineh: The Narrator of Karbala,” in The Women of Karbala: Ritual Performance and Symbolic Discourses in Modern Shi‘i Islam, ed. Kamran Agahie In University of Texas Press, December, 2005.
- “PerspectivShemeem Burney Abbases on a Grassroots Theory of Literary Orality & Aesthetics.” In Journal of Social 1997
- “Shemeem Burney AbbasThe Power of English in Pakistan.” in World Englishes ,1993
Shemeem Burney AbbasHer 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 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.