Mohd Muzhafar Idrus

Publications

A complete record of journal articles, books, and book chapters across literary studies, cultural identity, popular culture, language, and related scholarly inquiry.

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Research publications

  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (accepted, 2027). Artistic Aisthesis: Malay-Muslim and Japanese philosophies in Malaysian dusun photovoice situated production. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Moussa Pourya Asl & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (accepted, 2026). “Notice me, notice me”: Power, Precarity, and Diasporic Loneliness in Kamila Shamsie’s Best of Friends. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies. (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Normazla Ahmad Mahir, and Norhaili Massari (under review, 2026). Contemporary madrasa mobility, fragmentary literary geography. Quantum Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities.
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2026). Narratives, emotions, and languages in universalized adaptations. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 32(2), 1. (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Normazla Ahmad Mahir, Habibah Ismail, Norhaili Massari. (2025). Discursivities of empowerment, marginal women’s agency, and psychogeography of madrasa. Rotura – Revista De Comunicação, Cultura E Artes, 5(2). (Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2025). Supernatural warnings: the role of Hantu Kopek, Wewe Gombel, and Ame-Onna in addressing child and family issues. International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), 9(03), 3852-3858. (Excellence in Research For Australia, ERA).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Normazla Ahmad Mahir, Habibah Ismail, Norhaili Massari. (2025). Reimagining de-urbanised madrasa and self-place interaction through the lens of psychogeography. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, (Q1, Clarivate Analytics Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Clarivate Analytics Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus).
  • Ramlan, W. N. M., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hassan, N. I. (2025). “No longer languished in the periphery of existence:” Female bodies, computational-sentiment analysis, and Malay folktales. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies. (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Normazla Ahmad Mahir, Habibah Ismail, Noornajihan Jaafar. (2024). Tahfiz psychogeography of the marginals: Reimagining self and place through narratives. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 30(4), 60-73 (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus and Iyad M. (2024). Negation forms in the poetry of Philip Larkin. Comparative Literature: East & West, 8(2), 207-220 (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Raihanah, M. M. and Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2024). Rewriting cultural identity, cosmopolitanism, and Malaysian fiction. Comparative Literature: East & West, 8(1), 75-88 (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Hashim, R. S. & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2024). Unblessed be thy milk: Filial obedience, repentance, and forgiveness in Malay popular fiction. In Wilson, Bernard & Sharifah Aishah Osman (Eds.), The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Challenges and Contestations-South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian Diaspora, Volume II. Springer Nature-Palgrave Macmillan. (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Raihanah, M. M. and Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2023). “so much about myself I didn’t understand”: Rememory and the Problematics of a lost identity in Sally Morgan’s My Place. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 29(3), 272-284 (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Raihanah, M. M. (2023). Malaysia’s Popular Malay-Muslim TV Fiction and Fan Narratives. In Kristian Petersen & Hussein Rashid (Eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture (pp. 261-270). New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic. (Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ismail, H., & Abdullah, H. (2023). Neoliberal Neoliberal Ideologies in Menggapai Bintang (Reach for the Stars). In James Hodapp (Ed.), Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature (pp. 243-256). New York: Bloomsbury Academic. (Scopus).
  • Ahmad Mahir, N., Zakaria, Z. A., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, & Massari, N. (2023). Debunking the Western feminist framework of the veiled woman in Shelina Zahra Janmohamed’s Love In A Headscarf. (2010). Al-Azkiyaa – International Journal of Language and Education, 2(1), 72-83.
  • Hashim, R. S., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, and Mary Ellen Gidah. (2022). Narratives of disability in Malay popular fiction. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 22(4), 295-307. (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ismail, H., Mat Saad, N. S., Abdullah, H., Puteh-Behak, R., Darmi, R., Baharun, H., Mohd Ali, S., & Harun, H. (2022). Generating alternatives to dominant ideology of English language position in Malaysia: A colonial vision or postcolonial revision? Globalizations, 19(5), 711-724. doi: 10.1080/14747731.2021.1934961 (Quartile-1, Clarivate Analytics: Social Sciences Citation Index, Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Scopus).
  • Raihanah, M. M. & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2022). Growing up with ghosts: Dynamics of re-memory and trauma in a Malaysian filial memoir. Kajian Malaysia, 40(1), 1-18 (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Ahmad Mahir, N., Zakaria, Z. A. ., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, & Abdullah, N. (2022). Exploring the element of allegory and metaphysical conceit in the works of John Donne’s A Valediction Forbidding Mourning & John Dryden’s Annus Mirrabilis: A comparative analysis. Al-Azkiyaa – International Journal of Language and Education, 1(1), 35–47. https://doi.org/10.33102/alazkiyaa.v1i1.7
  • Fairuz Zamani & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2022). Music as poetry and performance: Marriage, past Instabilities, and Razak Abdul Aziz’s musical performance. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 28(1), 1-15 (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus and Iyad Mukahal. (2021). “Doing” ecocriticism: Oppressions of nature and animals in Philip Larkin’s poetry. Comparative Literature: East & West, 5(1), 46-57. (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Yusof, A. M., Ibrahim, N., Mohamad Zamani, N. A., & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2021). Archetypal criticism : The notion of monomania overturns the hero’s journey. Jurnal Melayu. (MyCITE).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Mohd Mydin, R. (2020). Postcolonial civic identity and youth (dis)organizing the environment: A growth into citizenship analysis. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 20(2), 133-147 (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Kim, H. T.,Woods, P., Azman, H., Ho-Abdullah, I, Hashim, R. S., Abdul Rahim, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Mohd Said, N. E., Lew, R., & Kosem, I. (2020). COVID-19 insights and linguistic methods. 3L: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 26(2), 1-23. (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Karim, S. & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2020). Black empowerment and Afro-American values in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. IIUC Studies, 16, 111 – 121.
  • Mohd Zamani, N. A., Yusof, A. M., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Mohd Noor, N. M. (2020). The evolution and the function of hantu in the age of pandemic Covid-19 and the media. Jurnal Melayu, 19(2), 244- 253. (MyCITE).
  • Rahman, M. S. & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2020). Opposing native interest in Shakespeare’s The Tempest and Tagore’s Tasher Desh and Achalayatan: A comparative study. International Journal of Language Education and Applied Linguistics, 10(1), 63-70 (Scopus)).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ismail, H., Abdullah, H., Baharun, H., Mat Saad, N. S. Darmi, R., Puteh-Behak, & F., Harun, H. (2019). Opening up alternatives to dominant ideological constructions of English language teaching in Malaysia, Changing English, 26(3), 306-320 (Quartile-3, Web of Science: Emerging Sources Citation Index, Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Mohd Mydin, R. (2019). Pursuing imperfection, forgiveness, and repentance in popular twenty-first century Malay television fiction, Kritika Kultura, 33/34, 455-475 (Clarivate Analytics: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus & Mohsin, A. M. (2019). Motivation of language in literary text: A study of Toni Morrison’s Sula. International Journal of Recent Technology and Engineering, 7(6S5), 923-927 (Scopus).
  • Massari, N., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ahmad Mahir, N., Puteh-Behak, F. (2019). The Malays: A retrospective examination on identity through selected writings by Munshi Abdullah, Za’aba, Syed Hussein Alatas, and Mahathir Mohamad. Journal of Islamic, Social, Economics, and Development, 4(19), 214-223 (MyCITE).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Raihanah, M. M. (2018). Audience narratives, popular TV fiction, and the unconscious Malay psyche. Journal of Language and Communication, 5(1), 124-135. (MyCITE).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Mohd Mydin, R. (2018). Female youth responding to popular TV fiction: Unconscious Malay psyche and resistance. Advanced Science Letters, 24(4), 2913-2917 (Web of Science).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Mohd Mydin, R., Mat Saad, N. M., Puteh-Behak, F., & Darmi, R. (2018). Popular TV fiction: Cultural identities, unconscious Malay psyche, and youth. Advanced Science Letters, 24(4), 2862-2865 (Web of Science).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Mohd Mydin, R. (2017). Rediscovery of the Malay ‘local:’ youth and TV fiction in Malaysia. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 22(2), 210-225 (Quartile-3, Web of Science, Scopus). This article wins USIM’s 2018 Best Social Science Journal Article.
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Mohd Mydin, R. (2016). Globalization, re-discovery of the Malay ‘local,” and popular TV fiction through audience narratives, The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, 22(2), 31-48 (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Mohd Mydin, R., Mohd Sidek, H., Abdul Hamid, Y. E., Selamat, S. (2016). Popular TV fiction, mediascape, and Malay cultural identities. International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences, 2(6), 706-710.
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Mohd Mydin, R., Mohd Sidek, H., Abdul Hamid, Y. E., Selamat, S. (2016). Multi-varied realities of Malay cultural identities in popular TV fiction. International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences, 2(6), 716-719.
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Mohd Mydin, R. (2015). Followership: Boosting power and position in popular TV fiction. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 15(1), 207-224 (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Mohd Mydin, R. (2014). Malay cultural identities: A review. Humanities and Social Sciences Letters, 3(1), 1-9 (Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Mohd Mydin, R. (2014). Imagining alternative modernity: Negotiating Islamic-ness and Malay-ness on popular TV fiction. Asian Economic and Financial Review, 4(12), 1798-1811 (Scopus, ERA).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hashim, R. S., & Mohd Mydin, R. (2014). Power, Adat, and Popular TV Fiction Imaginary. Asian Journal of Social Sciences & Humanities, 4(12),186-196 (EBSCOHost).
  • Hashim, R., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ho-Abdullah, I., Md Yusof, N., Mohd Mydin, R., Hamdan, S. (2013). Facebook-Infused Identities: Learners’ Voices. International Education Studies, 6(6), 45-53. (Excellence in Research for Australia)

Journal Articles for Collegiality

  • Ismail, H., Baharun, H. ., Ahmad, H. ., M. Shuhud, M. I., & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2025). Crisis Management Language during COVID-19: A Corpus-Assisted Analysis of Malaysian Prime Minister’s Discourse. International Journal of Language Education and Applied Linguistics, 15(1), 88-101. https://doi.org/10.15282/ijleal.v15i1.10918.
  • Habibah Ismail, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, et al. (2025). Muslim women leaders in Malaysian universities: Managing identities, power & institutions. Al-Abqari Journal, 32(2), 158–173. DOI:https://doi.org/10.33102/abqari.vol32no2.670.
  • Abdullah, H., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Gao, X. A., Muhammad, S. S. (2024). Teacher Cognition of Gender Gap in the English Language Literacy: A Malaysian Narrative. Sage Open, 14(4) (Quartile-1 Clarivate Analytics: Social Sciences Citation Index, Scopus).
  • Abdullah, I. D. K., Ahmad Yusof, A. M., Mohd Hashim, Z., Baharuddin, N. H., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2024). Exploring the Relationship between Motivational Learning Factors in Online Learning. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 14(9), 1313-1329.
  • Hazlina Abdullah & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2023). On the path towards understanding Malaysian boys and girls’ interest and participation in literacy. Education 3-13, 53(6), 980 – 993. (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Abdullah, H., Zainuddin, N., Puteh-Behak, F., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Saad, N. S. M., Harun, H., Darmi, R., Baharun, H., Wahab, N. A., & Adnan, J. N. I. (2023). Analyzing The Factors Influencing English Performance of Islamic-Based University Students. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 12(2), 1265–1281.
  • Hashim, Z. M., Muhyiddin, A., Abdullah, I. D. K., Baharuddin, N. H., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus., & Rahmat, N. H. (2023). Learners’ Motivation: Stimulus or Stress? International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 13(9), 1482–1503.
  • Habibah Ismail, Selina Khoo, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Jadeera Phaik Geok Cheong, & Rizal Razman. (2022). Newspaper coverage of paralympic athletes. A multimodal discourse analysis. Sage Open, 12(2), 1-17 (Quartile-1, Web of Science, Social Sciences Citation Index).
  • Darmi, R. ., Ismail, H. ., Syed Sahuri, S. N. ., Ramlan, S. R. ., Mat Saad, N. S. ., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus & Puteh Behak, F. (2022). A rubric design: Assessing innovation during teaching practicum. Al-Azkiyaa – International Journal of Language and Education, 1(2), 91–102. https://doi.org/10.33102/alazkiyaa.v1i2.29.
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Fariza Puteh-Behak, Ramiaida Darmi, Noor Saazai Mat Saad, Suraini Mohd Ali, Norhana Abdullah, Habibah Ismail, Zarina Ashikin Zakaria, and Noorhayati Hashim. (2022). Voices of indigenous parents on learning, class, and literacy practices: Agency, authority, and empowerment. Al-Azkiyaa International Journal of Language and Education, 1(2), 51-67.
  • Abdullah, H., Ibrahim, M., Harun, H., Wahab, N. A. B., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Baharun, H., Baharudin, D. F., & Ishak, M. (2022). The Islamic drive and L2 motivational learning model among Tahfiz students. International Journal of Health Sciences, 6(S6), 4553–4564.
  • Abdullah, H., Saimin, R., Samah, R., & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2021). Challenges in providing optimal development for young children. Jurnal Sains Insani, 6(3), 107-114. (MyCITE).
  • Ismail, H., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, & Syed Sahuri, S. N. (2020). Masculinity through ‘emotion:’ A corpus-assisted discourse analysis on sport news and implications for social workers in sport. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 30(1), 54-70. (Quartile-3, Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Mohd Ali, S., Baharun, H., Abdullah, H., Mat Saad, N. S., Puteh-Behak, F., Ismail, H., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, & Zakaria, M. Z. (2020). An emerging framework: Literacy training module for social navigation of refugees. International Journal of Language Education and Applied Linguistics, 10(1), 41-48 ( Scopus).
  • Darmi, R., Mat Saad, N. S., Ab. Wahab, N., Puteh-Behak, F., Darmi, R., & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2020). English for professionals and graduate employability: Exploring Malaysian college ESL students’ perceptions of creating digital video CV task in 4.0 classroom. International Journal of Language Education and Applied Linguistics, 10(2), 26-33 (Scopus).
  • Abdullah, H., Mohamed Zain, A., Ab Wahab, N., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Mas Rynna Wati Ahmad. (2020). A process approach in the teaching of writing: Saving 21st century learners from writer’s block. Universal Journal of Educational Research, 8(12), 7160-7174 (EBSCOHOST).
  • Muhammad, S. S., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Mohd Salleh, S., Abdul Kadir, Z. (2020). Issues and challenges in blended learning among learners in higher education: What do we learn? International Journal of Education and Pedagogy, 2(4), 193-204 (MyCITE).
  • Mohd Mydin, R., Arsad, N., & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2019). CDIO and the engineering of personalised learning environment: An exploration. International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 8(1.2), 194-198 (Proquest).
  • Ishak, M., Tibek. S. R., Abd Ghani, Z., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Abdullah, H., Darmi, Mohamed, A., Gunardi, S., Ja’afar, N., Ismail, N. A., & Ismail, H. (2019). The pondok education issues and challenges from the lenses of state religious department and council officials in Malaysia. International Journal of Education, Psychology, and Counseling, 4(31), 384-393 (MyCITE).
  • Puteh-Behak, F., Selamat, S., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Darmi, R., Abdullah, H., Mat Saad, N. S., Massari, N. (2019). Enhancing the quality of life using multiliteracies project approach to augment employability skills among Malaysian university graduates. Islamic Journal of Islamic Social Sciences and Humanities. 20(1), 96-106. (MyCITE).
  • Zamani, F., & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2019). Abdul Razak: The forgotten composer. ASEAN Journal of Management and Business Studies, 1(1), 76-83 (MyCITE).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Mohd Nor, N. F., Hashim, R. Z., & Mohd Mydin, R. (2018). Advice-giving roles and strategies in selected faculty member- graduate student advising. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 18(2), 217- 234 (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Abdullah, H., Mat Saad, N. S., Tibek, S. R., Abd Ghani, Z., Mohd Nor, A. H., Ishak, M., Sulaiman, A., Ismail, N. A. Darmi, R., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Jaafar, N. (2017). The dynamics of Tahfiz institutions: A case study of three best practice models of Tahfiz Education in Malaysia. Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology, Special Issue, 248-257 (Scopus).
  • Zainal Ariff, T. N. A., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Mohd Sidek, H., Baharun, H. (2017). Conversion to Islam ceremony interview: Opening the interview with Hikmah. Ulum Islamiyyah: Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences, 19(3), 35-55
  • Mohd Sidek, H., Zainal Ariff, T. N. A., Baharun, H., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Mat Saad, N. S. (2017). Naqli-aqli socio-cultural instructional discourse: Characteristics analysis. Ulum Islamiyyah: Malaysian Journal of Social Sciences, 19(3), 23-33
  • Mat Saad, N. S., Yamat, H., Mohd Sidek, H., Baharun, I., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2017). Acts of agency in English language learning experience. International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences, 2(6), 733-746.
  • Mohd Sidek, H., Baharun, I., Mat Saad, N. S., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2017). English as a foreign language reading fluency analysis: A pilot study. International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences, 2(4), 70-79.
  • Mohd Sidek, H., Baharun, I.,Mat Saad, N. S., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2017). Analysis of rhetorical moves in abstracts for conference proceedings. International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences, 2(5), 570-580.
  • Mohd. Sidek, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, H., Ismail, S., Mat Said, N. S., Behak, F. P., Baharun, H., Ramli, S., Abd Aziz, M. A., Ismail, N. A., & Mat Ali, S. (2017). An analysis of taqwa in the holy Quran: Surah al- Baqarah. International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences, 3(8), 401-406. https://doi.org/10.18769/ijasos.336598
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus & Mohd Nor, N. F. (2016). Legitimation analysis: Exploring decision-making and power in Hot Bench. GEMA Online Journal of Language Studies, 16(2),33-52 (Web of Science, Scopus).
  • Baharun, I., Mohd Sidek, H., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, & Mat Saad, N. S. (2016). Task-based language learning: Investigating the dynamics of learners’ oral interaction. International E-Journal of Advances in Social Sciences, 2(5), 570-580.
  • Baharun, I., Mohd Sidek, H., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. Mat Saad, N. S., Harun, H., Darmi, R., Abdullah, N., & Zakaria, Z. A. (2016). The Malaysian secondary school EFL speaking curriculum: A theoretical foundation alignment analysis, International E-Journal of Advances in Education, 2(6), 465-474.

Books

  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2027). Madrasa literary psychogeography in Malaysia. Palgrave Macmillan Cham.
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus and Shanthini Pillai. (2027). Where roots run deep: Stories from a Malaysian dusun. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Hazlina Abdullah, & Habibah Ismail. (2026). Sinuous alliance: Linguistics, literature, and language education. Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Press.
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2025). Malay psyche and popular television encounters. Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Press.
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus & Massari, N. (2020). Teaching of prose: Novels. Nilai, Negeri Sembilan: Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Press.
  • Abdullah, N. & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2020). Language and education trends 3. Nilai, Negeri Sembilan: Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Press.
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus & Siti Salmiah Muhammad. (2014). Ace-it-through: Communicative English for all. Nilai, Negeri Sembilan: Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Press.
  • Norhana Abdullah & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2020). Language and education trends volume 3. Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Press.

Chapter in Books

  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2026, proofed). Shifting borders of thinking through reconciliations: Veera Hiranandani’s The Night Diary. In Pourya Asl, M. & Jaidka, M. (Eds.), Identity and the Literary Imagination. Springer Nature.
  • Ruzy Suliza Hashim and Mohd Muzhafar Idrus (2024). Unblessed Be Thy Milk: Filial Obedience, Repentance, and Forgiveness in Malay Popular Fiction. In The Asian Family in Literature and Film: Challenges and Contestations-South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian Diaspora, Volume II, eds. Wilson, B and Osman, S. A. Springer Nature-Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, & Raihanah Mohd Mydin. (2023). Malaysia’s Popular Malay-Muslim TV Fiction and Fan Narratives. In The Bloomsbury Handbook of Muslims and Popular Culture, eds. K. Peterson and H. Rashid. New York: Bloomsbury Press.
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ismail, H., & Abdullah, H. (2023). Neoliberal Ideologies in Menggapai Bintang (Reach for the Stars). In James Hodapp (Ed.), Graphic Novels and Comics as World Literature (pp. 243-256). New York: Bloomsbury Academic. (Scopus).
  • Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Ismail, H., Abdul Hamid, B., Hashim, R. H. (2023). Malaysia Responding to Domestic Violence. In Dongling Zhang and Diana Peterson (Ed.), International Responses to Gendered-Based Domestic Violence: Gender-Specific and Socio-Cultural Approaches (pp.126-134). New York: Routledge. (Scopus).
  • Puteh-Behak, F., Md Ali, S., Mat Saad, N. S., Darmi, R., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus, Harun, H., Ahmad Mahir, A., Mohamad Nazri, N. D., Sulaiman, M., Abdul Mutalib, M. (2020). Refuting Stereotypes about Education Involving Orang Asli in Malaysia. In Indigenous peoples in Malaysia and New Zealand: A multidisciplinary perspective (pp.60-69). Nilai, Negeri Sembilan: Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Press.
  • Muhammad, S. S. & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2020). Blended learning as a pedagogy in higher education: Learners tools/applications preferences in English for Professional Course. In Language and education Trends 4 (pp. 86-97). Nilai, Negeri Sembilan: Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Press.
  • Mat Saad, N. S., Darmi, R., Mohd Ali, S., Zainuddin, N., Ahmad Mahir, N., Massari, N., Abdullah, N., Puteh Behak, F., Harun, H., Zakaria, Z. A., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2019). A revolutionized model for teaching practicum and assessment:E-PRASMO. In Handbook of research on E-assessment in higher education (pp. 269-294). Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global.
  • Hazleena Baharun, Tun Nur Afizah Zainal Ariff, Harison@Hanisa Mohd Sidek, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2020). Investigating the production of language related episodes (LREs) in learners’ oral interaction. In Language and Education Trends 3. Nilai, Negeri Sembilan: Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Press.
  • Noor Saazai Mat Saad, Fariza Puteh-Behak, Siti Rugayah Tibek, Haliza Harun, Normazla Ahmad Mahir, Nurdalila Mohd Nazri, Suraini Mohd Ali, Ramiaida Darmi, Mohd Muzhafar Idrus & Mashitah Sulaiman. (2018). Konsep AL-Mizan dalam Trend Semasa Pendidikan Negara. In Al-Mizan: Konsep, Prinsip dan Aplikasinya Bagi Kelestarian Ummah. Nilai, Negeri Sembilan: Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Press.
  • Puteh-Behak, F., Mat Saad, N. S., & Mohd Muzhafar Idrus. (2018). Multiliteracies in Malaysia. In Oxford research encyclopedia of education (pp. 1-23). Oxon, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Mat Saad, N. S., Puteh-Behak, F., Tibek, S. R., Harun, H., Ahmad Mahir, N., Mohd Nazri N. D. Mohd Ali, S., Darmi, R., Mohd Muzhafar Idrus & Sulaiman, M. (2018). Konsep AL-Mizan dalam trend semasa pendidikan negara. In Al-Mizan: Konsep, prinsip dan aplikasinya bagi kelestarian ummah (pp.1-87). Nilai, Negeri Sembilan: Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Press.
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