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Mushtaq Ahmad Gurmani School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Research Publications

Books
  • Questioning the Muslim Woman: Space, Identity and Insecurity in an Urban Locality
    Nida Kirmani
    Routledge, India New Delhi [Forthcoming Dec 2012]
Book Chapters
  • A Critical Appraisal of Islamic Feminist Approaches to Womens Rights Activism
    Nida Kirmani
    Alternative Islamic Discourses and Religious Authority, Carool Kersten (ed.), Surrey: Ashgate [Forthcoming Dec 2012]
Journal Articles
  • Beyond the Impasse: 'Muslim Feminism(s)' and the Indian Women's Movement
    Nida Kirmani
    Contributions to Indian Sociology, Volume 45(1), April 2011
  • Engaging with Islam to Promote Women's Rights: Exploring Opportunities and Challenging Assumptions
    Nida Kirmani and Isabel Phillips
    Progress in Development Studies, Volume 11(2), April, 2011
  • 'Re-thinking the Promotion of Women's Rights through Islam in India'
    Nida Kirmani
    IDS Bulletin: Gender, Rights and Religion at the Crossroads, Mariz Tadros (ed.), January 2011
  • Claiming Their Space: Muslim Women-led Networks and the Women's Movement in India
    Nida Kirmani
    The Journal of International Women's Studies (Special issue on Muslim women's movements), Volume 11, No. 1, November 2010
  • Deconstructing and Reconstructing 'Muslim Women's through Women's Narratives
    Nida Kirmani
    The Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 18(1), March 2009
  • Constructing 'the Other': Narrating Religious Boundaries in Zakir Nagar
    Nida Kirmani
    Contemporary South Asia, Volume 16, No. 4, December 2008
  • Competing Constructions of 'Muslim-ness in the South Delhi Neighbourhood of Zakir Nagar
    Nida Kirmani
    The Journal of Muslim Minority Affairs, Volume 28, No. 3, December 2008
  • Does Faith Matter? An Examination of Islamic Relief's Work with Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons
    Nida Kirmani and Ajaz Ahmed Khan
    Refugee Survey Quarterly, Volume 27, No. 2, June 2008
  • History, Memory and Localised Constructions of Insecurity
    Nida Kirmani
    Economic and Political Weekly, Vol, 43(10), March 8-14, 2008

Assistant Professor
BA, Liberal Arts University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2000
MA, Development Studies University of Manchester 2003
PhD, Sociology University of Manchester 2007

nida.kirmani@lums.edu.pk
+92 42 3560 8105

Research Interests
My PhD explored the construction of the locality and identities in a Muslim-majority neighbourhood in Delhi. This research deconstructed the category 'Muslim women' through the narrative approach. Since completing my PhD, I have been studying the relationship of women's movements in India and Pakistan with religion as well as the role of religion in women's rights advocacy in Muslim communities in general.