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    A probing of Bapsi Sidhwa’s the Pakistani bride through the lens of Islamic feminism
    (UMT, Lahore, 2021) Areej Shahzadi
    The focus of this thesis is to illustrate the various aspects of domestic abuse with women in order to govern their lives and rule in society, especially in patriarchal societies, as portrayed in novel The Pakistani Bride by Bapsi Sidhwa. For a long time, domestic violence has been a major impediment to women's advancement and prosperity. As a well-known novelist, Sidhwa strives to illustrate all facets of marital abuse in order to bring the latent negative impact of marriage on women's lives to light. She refutes the holy concept of matriarchy based on her direct familiarity of challenges encountered by women in traditional system. Bapsi Sidhwa, in her novel, contradicts the spiritual notion of marriage, in which women are tormented by various social codes imposed by male members of society, based on her realistic knowledge of problems encountered by women in a patriarchal culture. She discusses oppressed and double-colonized Pakistani women, portraying them as victims of patriarchal culture who face various, national and domestic problems and are forced to suppress their identity in order to be in sync with the society and culture. This thesis makes an effort to present all of the moral rules and methods used by men for decades to regulate women through the so-called holy marital relationship and to compare it with the Islamic teachings and oThis thesis aims to investigate and highlight the position of female status in society with the Islamic point of view, comparing the Islamic teachings to the society that manipulates with its narrative as posed by Bapsi Sidhwa in her novel The Pakistani Bride. It examines the issue of females being viewed as subalterns in Pakistani culture. The study seeks to reveal how patriarchal cultures in slave and oppress women mentally, morally, and socially. Sidhwa has depicted Pakistan's gender-based class hierarchy quite accurately. For future researchers, it would be beneficial to take the data from this study and evaluate the role of women not only in Sub-continent but also in other parts of the world, and iii would also be helpful in comparing it with other religions, keeping in view Islam and its teaching. It is not an inter-disciplinary research. It is a qualitative research that has distinct focus on grounded theory.