The Chittagong University Journal of Arts & Humanities
The Chittagong University Journal of Arts and Humanities (ISSN 1993-5536) is a peer-reviewed journal. Notably, it is a referred journal with high impact. It is published as a half yearly journal. It covers all disciplines in arts and humanities and always strives to be a platform for academicians, new researchers, authors, and Arts & Humanities scholars. It is published twice a year containing two volumes with papers written in Bengali, English, Arabic and Persian languages. It welcomes articles which deploy inter-disciplinary and comparative research methods.
বাংলা ভাষার প্রযুক্তি স্বয়ংক্রিয়করণ বিকাশ অপরিহার্যতা ও ব্যবহার
মুস্তফা সাদিক আর-রাফে‘ঈ: জীবন বৃত্তান্ত ও আধুনিক আরবি সাহিত্য তাঁর অবদান
تفنيدُ ادّعاء المستشرقين بوجود خطأٍ نحويٍّ في الآية السابعة عشرة من سورة الشورى حول استخدام المذكر موضع المؤنث
Abstract: The Vedas are a significant body of ancient Indian Sanskrit literature. They are regarded as eternal truths, revealed and transmitted orally for thousands of years before being documented. For this reason, the Vedas are called Śruti (that which is heard). Karma and rebirth are important doctrines of Indian philosophy. In the mantras of the ancient Ṛg-Veda, the word karma signifies “ritual action,” through which individuals may attain all forms of welfare, including communion with God and entry into heaven. This initial concept of karma persists in subsequent post-Buddhist and Upaniṣadsic writings, which further elaborate on popular Hindu concepts of rebirth. This article provides a brief outline of how the concept of karma first emerges and develops in the ancient Ṛg-Veda.
On Translating the Postmodern Novel The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco into Bangla
Abstract: It all started, according to the Italian author Umberto Eco, with the simple idea of writing a novel about poisoning a monk, and the ultimate produce II nome della rosa (1980) was the first attempt of his in the genre that became a literary phenomenon almost as soon as it was published. In William Weaver’s exquisite translation, the novel turned into The Name of the Rose (1983), from which it was rendered into Bangla, by the writer of the present essay, as গোলাপের নাম (Golaper Nam, a calque of the English title). Simple as the germinating idea of the novel was, the voluminous tome that it flowered into is not an easy read at all. A murder mystery set in a Benedictine monastery in north Italy in the 14 th century, in 1327 to be very specific, and replete not only with events concerning politics and religion in the beginning of the late Middle Ages, but also with topics related to aesthetics, medieval philosophy, language, poetics, semiotics, skepticism, as well as with innumerable allusions to fictional, mythical, and historical characters, the novel in its scope becomes an erudite postmodernist one without losing its highly enjoyable readability. This paper tries to put forward not only the experience the Bangla translator had while translating the novel of this grand stature, an experience that can best be described as a trial by fire, but also some of his observations regarding the very complex phenomenon called translation.
Generosity in Islam : An Analytical Discourse in the Light of Islamic Shariah Texts
Abstract: Generosity is a vital precept in Islam. Islam promotes generosity and suggests adopting generosity in its all aspects including religious practices, rituals, attitudes, transactions, behavioural issues, etc. Islam strongly opposes extremism in any of its phases. Some acts of extremism by a tiny group of people leave scope for the enemies of Islam to relate extremism with Islam. Therefore the purpose of the study is to examine the issues in the light of Shariah Texts whether Islam is associated with extremism, how values of generosity and moderation in Islam oppose extremism and how far it is rational to link extremism with Islam. The data will be assessed using analytical and descriptive approaches. The findings reveal that Islam is a religion that promotes generosity in all its aspects, rejects extremism in those all and has no farthest relation with extremism. This study will help both the supporters and non-supporters of Islam apprehend the true essence of Islam in general and bona fide Muslims. In particular, reject extremism in all aspects of life.
Conversion of English Loanwords in Bangla
Abstract: Though there are debates among researchers about the actual domain of ‘Conversion’, it has traditionally been included and discussed in Morphology. Morphologists define ‘Conversion’ as a linguistic process of word-formation triggered by zero affixation. It means that conversion takes place when a word changes its category or parts of speech without the addition of prefixes or suffixes. This process is pervasive in the English language. In this article, by employing the Qualitative Method, we try to trace the presence of conversion and its types in some English words borrowed into Bangla. Light will also be shed on the contribution of conversional loans from the English tongue. The data collected chiefly from lexicographical sources reveal that the morphological phenomenon of conversion of English loanwords in Bangla mainly concerns three major categories - nouns, verbs and adjectives. Apart from these word classes, we also notice the conversion of some closed classes like (English) prepositions, interjections and conjunctions in Bangla. The productivity of the process is visible in the recipient language in the conversion of even non-morphematic elements like acronyms and initialisms. The most noticeable contribution of these loanwords and the process of conversion is that they have triggered the creation of some new lexemes in Bangla that are convertible, for example, ‘Bkash’, ‘Rocket’ and ‘Nagad’. These analogically created words can experience word-class shift like their English counterparts. Their travel from the nominal class to the verbal class is accomplished with much ease, almost like the English words using zero-morpheme.
বাংলাদেশের মহান মুক্তিযুদ্ধে চাকমা রাজা ত্রিদিব রায়ের ভূমিকা
শহীদ সাবেরের ছোটগল্পে শিশুকিশোরের যাপিত জীবন
সন্ত্রাসবাদ ও মানবাধিকারঃ একটি নৈতিক পর্যালোচনা
“রবীন্দ্রনাথের গানে লালনের অধ্যাত্মবাদ দর্শনের প্রভাব”
রবীন্দ্রনাথের ঋতু সংগীতের ধারায় ‘শারদোৎসব’ নাটকের গান (১৯০৮)
জীবনানন্দ দাশের প্রবন্ধে বাংলা ভাষা, বঙ্গদেশ ও বাঙালি সত্তা ভাবনা
সলঙ্গার ঐতিহাসিক ঘটনা : হত্যাকান্ড পরবর্তী বিদ্রোহ ও মাওলানা আব্দুর রশীদ তর্কবাগীশের রাজনৈতিক ভূমিকা
আল-কুরআনের শিক্ষা ও জ্ঞান চর্চায় মুহাম্মদ তাহির আল-কাদেরীর অবদান : একটি পর্যালোচনা
ইসলামে স্বপ্নের তাৎপর্য ও করণীয়: একটি পর্যালোচনা
পাবলিক বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়ের শিক্ষার্থীদের আত্মহত্যা প্রবণতা বিশ্লেষণ: একটি সমীক্ষা
বৈশ্বিক পরিবেশগত সংকট উত্তরণে পরিবেশ নীতিবিদ্যা শিক্ষার গুরুত্ব
কিংবদন্তি পীর বদর শাহ ও তাঁর সমাধি; পর্যালোচনা ও স্থাপত্যিক বৈশিষ্ট্য বিশ্লেষণ
রাঙ্গুনিয়ার আর্থ-সামাজিক উন্নয়ন: পরিপ্রেক্ষিত গুমাই বিল
মানিক বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের ছোটোগল্প: একটি মনস্তাত্ত্বিক সমীক্ষা
নান্দনিকতার দৃষ্টিতে সংগীতের সাধনা ও ভাব
সোনালী কাবিন কাব্যে ভূ-প্রাকৃতিক পরিবেশরে পর্যালোচনা ও বিচার
চট্টগ্রামে সংবাদপত্রের উদ্ভব ও বিকাশ (১৮৭৮-১৯৪৭)
শিখন প্রক্রিয়ায় আচরণের ইতিবাচক পরিবর্তনে পুরস্কার ও শাস্তির প্রভাবঃ একটি পর্যালোচনা
ভাসকৃত স্বপ্নবাসবদত্তম্ নাটকে ছন্দ ও অলংকার বিচার
বর্তমান সামাজিক অবস্থার প্রেক্ষাপটে ঋক্-বৈদিক যুগের সামাজিক অবলোকন