Draft:Taj Hashmi

Taj Hashmi
তাজ হাশমি
Personal details
Born	1948 Assam
Citizenship	Bangladesh Canada
Nationality	Bangladeshi
Alma mater	University of Dhaka BA,MA University of Western Australia PhD
Profession	Writer Academian Professor

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Taj ul-Islam Hashmi is a Bangladeshi Academic and writer; he taught at various universities in Bangladesh, Australia, Singapore, and Canada. He has also worked for four years at the US Department of Defense's College of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) as a professor of Security studies in Honolulu, Hawaii. Since 1997, he has been a fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. He wrote scores of academic and popular essays, articles, and books on various aspects of history, society, religion, politics, culture, and security issues in South Asia, the Middle East, the Asia-Pacific, and North America. He is fluent in several Islamic and South Asian languages and is a regular commentator and analyst on current affairs and global conflicts in print and electronic media.

Early Life

Hashmi was born in Assam in 1948.

Education

Hashmi finished 12th grade at Dhaka College and 10th grade at Sirajganj B.L. High School. He completed his M.A. and B.A. (Hons) in Islamic History and Culture from the University of Dhaka and a PhD in Modern South Asian History from the University of Western Australia.

Profession

Hashmi has been an Assistant Professor of Public Management and Criminal Justice at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee, since August 2011, he has taught courses on Global and Homeland Security: International Terrorism, Islamic Resurgence, Global Jihad and the Americas, History and Politics of the Middle East and South Asia, Counter-Terrorism, Terrorism and the Law, Domestic Terrorism in the United States, and crisis management issues. He was a retired Professor of Security Studies at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) from 2007 to June 2011. He also taught Islamic and modern South Asian history and cultural anthropology at various universities, including Curtin University (1987–1988), University of Dhaka (1972–1981), the National University of Singapore (1989–1998), and the University of British Columbia (1989–1998).

Works

Hashmi wrote many articles on The Daily Star until 2017.

Bibliography

His work, Pakistan as a Peasant Utopia (1992), depicts how religion, family, and factional links cut across class lines in East Bengal from 1920 to 1947, resulting in the communalization of class struggle between peasants and exploiters. This book seeks to provide light on peasant politics, which is nearly synonymous with Muslim politics in the Bengal region, from 1920 to 1947, a critical period when East Bengal was undergoing the political process that culminated in the establishment of East Pakistan in 1947. His work, Women and Islam in Bangladesh: Beyond Subjection and Tyranny, won the Justice Ibrahim Gold Medal (Bangladesh) in 2001 and became a bestseller in Asian Studies.

• Pakistan as a Peasant Utopia: The Communalization of Class Politics in East Bengal, 1920–1947 (1992), ISBN 9780367297619
• Women and Islam in Bangladesh: Beyond Subjection and Tyranny (2000), ISBN 9780312222192
• Global Jihad and America: The Hundred-Year War Beyond Iraq and Afghanistan, ISBN 9788132113782
• Fifty Years of Bangladesh, 1971-2021: Crises of Culture, Development, Governance, and Identity, ISBN 9783030971571
• Islam, Muslims, And The Modern State: Case-studies Of Muslims In Thirteen Countries (1994 and 1996), ISBN 9780333669693

References

Category:Historians Category:Writers Category:Academia