Ibrar Bhatt

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Meet the Editor Event on March 10, 2026! 🚨

Join the TiHE editors to hear about their vision for the journal, what they look for in submissions, and how to avoid common submission pitfalls

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Several copies of the book Islamic China

The book is out! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Big sister, dog, and ethnic names: Semiotic ideologies of self-naming on Xiaohongshu (RED) This paper examines the self-naming practices of international students on the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu (‘Little Red Book’), focusing…

We explore semiotic ideologies associated with particular self-naming practices on RED, incl tropes like ‘Doctoral Big Sister’ (博士姐姐), ‘research dog’ (科研狗; kē yán gǒu) & ethnic names & their cultural significance

Well done Alex, I enjoyed writing this with you

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From and back cover for the coming book ‘Heritage Literacy in the Lives of Chinese Muslims’.

From “Howdy” to “Hayakom”: A shifting university linguascape Sara Hillman, Aishwaryaa Kannan, and Tim Tizon ***   Walking into the Texas A&M University at Qatar (TAMUQ) building today feels different from just a year ago. As part of an ongoing proje…

New on Language-on-the-Move: fascinating longitudinal linguistic landscape study by @sarapatra.bsky.social and team, chronicling the shifts from Texan English to Qatari Arabic in a Middle Eastern university
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Heritage Literacy in the Lives of Chinese Muslims This book offers an intimate ethnographic window into the ways Chinese Muslims produce, maintain, and transmit religious, cultural, and historical knowledge thr…

For more on the study, please see

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We are excited to have donated two pieces of Chinese Islamic artwork to the Al Mujadilah Centre, a unique women’s sacred space in Doha.

The pieces donated are:
1. Paper cut by Ma Jun (马俊): Peony motif associated with Gansu province around the divine epithet 'Allāh'

Just completed a talk and met colleagues at Qatar University. Many thanks to the Dep of English Literature & Linguistics for having us. | Ibrar Bhatt Just completed a talk and met colleagues at Qatar University. Many thanks to the Dep of English Literature & Linguistics for having us.

A talk at Qatar University very recently:

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2. Calligraphy scroll by Ma Delong (马德龙). 185cm scroll depicting a verse in al-Baqara (2:208).

These were given to us during our project on Sino-Muslim heritage literacy, funded by @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social
We are delighted to have found a suitable home for them
almujadilah.qa/en

Just completed a talk and met colleagues at Qatar University. Many thanks to the Dep of English Literature & Linguistics for having us. | Ibrar Bhatt Just completed a talk and met colleagues at Qatar University. Many thanks to the Dep of English Literature & Linguistics for having us.

A talk at Qatar University very recently:

www.linkedin.com/posts/ibrarb...

From and back cover for the coming book ‘Heritage Literacy in the Lives of Chinese Muslims’.

Heritage Literacy in the Lives of Chinese Muslims This book offers an intimate ethnographic window into the ways Chinese Muslims produce, maintain, and transmit religious, cultural, and historical knowledge thr…

For more on the study, please see

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/heritage-...

www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

2. Calligraphy scroll by Ma Delong (马德龙). 185cm scroll depicting a verse in al-Baqara (2:208).

These were given to us during our project on Sino-Muslim heritage literacy, funded by @leverhulmetrust.bsky.social
We are delighted to have found a suitable home for them
almujadilah.qa/en

We are excited to have donated two pieces of Chinese Islamic artwork to the Al Mujadilah Centre, a unique women’s sacred space in Doha.

The pieces donated are:
1. Paper cut by Ma Jun (马俊): Peony motif associated with Gansu province around the divine epithet 'Allāh'

YouTube video by Ibrar Bhatt In Conversation with Syed Farid Alatas, Ibrar Bhatt & Shuchen Xiang (held at the SRHE, London)

Check out my latest video: a three-way conversation with Syed Farid Alatas and Shuchen Xiang (项舒晨) on decolonisation in universities, held at the Society for Research into Higher Education:
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YouTube video by Ibrar Bhatt In Conversation with Syed Farid Alatas, Ibrar Bhatt & Shuchen Xiang (held at the SRHE, London)

Check out my latest video: a three-way conversation with Syed Farid Alatas and Shuchen Xiang (项舒晨) on decolonisation in universities, held at the Society for Research into Higher Education:
youtu.be/DFXxvceAF20?...

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Critiquing uncritical EDI in higher education by Matt Lumb and Penny Jane Burke. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link).

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New publication alert! 🚨

Critiquing uncritical EDI in higher education

Points of Departure paper by Matt Lumb and Penny Jane Burke

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#HigherEducation #Equity #EDI

A screenshot of the first page of the article from the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives titled: Teaching to say ‘no’: pedagogies of refusal in the social sciences classroom (and beyond) by Jennifer Philippa Eggert, Jamie J. Hagen and Lewis Turner. The screenshot includes the abstract of the article (available via the link) in both English and Spanish.

A screenshot of the cover of the journal Teaching in Higher Education: Critical Perspectives. The cover is red with a black band on the edge.

New publication alert! 🚨

Teaching to say ‘no’: pedagogies of refusal in the social sciences classroom (and beyond)

Enseñar a decir no: pedagogías del rechazo en el aula de ciencias sociales (y más allá)

By Jennifer Philippa Eggert et al.

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#HigherEducation

Teaching to say ‘no’: pedagogies of refusal in the social sciences classroom (and beyond) Although not new, debates about researchers’ refusal to engage in (potentially) unethical and harmful research have recently gained traction in the social sciences, stressing the need for researche...

It's out 🎉😊❤️ In 'Teaching to say "no"' (published now in
@teachinginhe.bsky.social) Jennifer P. Eggert,
@lewisturner.bsky.social
& I build on decolonial, indigenous scholarship to discuss how university teachers can teach their students how to refuse to engage in harmful research.

bit.ly/43XMzYG

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New podcast! 🚨

In this episode, Ibrar Bhatt talks to Claire Timperley (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand) about her article “Assessment as pedagogy”.

On Spotify:
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On Apple:
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📢 New publication, co-authored with my PhD student Alex Wang (王阳陆):

‘Big sister’ (姐姐), ‘Dog’ (狗) & ethnic names: Semiotic ideologies of self-naming on Xiaohongshu (Red)

This one is for all you 科研狗 ('research dogs') out there! 👇

This work has triggered a call for papers for a Special Issue on ‘A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith’:
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Exploring a Sociolinguistics of Islam Abstract. The ‘sociolinguistics of Islam’ refers to the exploration of how language and society intersect within contexts where the Islamic faith is the de

This article’s ideas took shape through various talks, incl at Manchester China Institute, HBKU, Qatar University, Lancaster, HKUST & more. Data draw from China.
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New article: 'Exploring a Sociolinguistics of Islam'. One of my most important pieces. Built on my research & enriched by collab with Othman Barnawi & Rizwan Ahmad
academic.oup.com/applij/advan...

It brings together many voices, places & perspectives
See below article & related special issue CfPs..

This work has triggered a call for papers for a Special Issue on ‘A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith’:
ibrarspace.net/wp-content/u...

Exploring a Sociolinguistics of Islam Abstract. The ‘sociolinguistics of Islam’ refers to the exploration of how language and society intersect within contexts where the Islamic faith is the de

This article’s ideas took shape through various talks, incl at Manchester China Institute, HBKU, Qatar University, Lancaster, HKUST & more. Data draw from China.
academic.oup.com/applij/advan...

New article: 'Exploring a Sociolinguistics of Islam'. One of my most important pieces. Built on my research & enriched by collab with Othman Barnawi & Rizwan Ahmad
academic.oup.com/applij/advan...

It brings together many voices, places & perspectives
See below article & related special issue CfPs..

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📣 Upcoming event: On Wednesday 2 July we will be joined by Professor Syed Farid Alatas, Professor Shuchen Xiang and @ibrar-bhatt.bsky.social to discuss Re-thinking Knowledge, Intellectual Canons, and the Decolonisation of Academia. Find out more and register here to join us: bit.ly/3HWKQtX

Big sister, dog, and ethnic names: Semiotic ideologies of self-naming on Xiaohongshu (RED) This paper examines the self-naming practices of international students on the Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu (‘Little Red Book’), focusing…

We explore semiotic ideologies associated with particular self-naming practices on RED, incl tropes like ‘Doctoral Big Sister’ (博士姐姐), ‘research dog’ (科研狗; kē yán gǒu) & ethnic names & their cultural significance

Well done Alex, I enjoyed writing this with you

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

📢 New publication, co-authored with my PhD student Alex Wang (王阳陆):

‘Big sister’ (姐姐), ‘Dog’ (狗) & ethnic names: Semiotic ideologies of self-naming on Xiaohongshu (Red)

This one is for all you 科研狗 ('research dogs') out there! 👇