I am excited to share a recent panel discussion I hosted at the Society for Research into Higher Education (SRHE) in London, now available to watch on YouTube. Titled ‘In Conversation With Syed Farid Alatas: Re-Thinking Knowledge, Intellectual Canons, and the Decolonisation of Academia’, the event brought together […]
I am excited to announce a Call for Papers for a forthcoming special issue in the Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development, which I will co-edit with Othman Barnawi and Rizwan Ahmad. The special issue theme is ‘A Sociolinguistics of Islam: Exploring Multilingualism & Meaning in Faith’ and […]
I am delighted to announce the publication of my new article, co-authored with Zhen Li [李蓁], titled “Towards Understanding Heritage Literacy” (see link). This research provides a fresh perspective on the intersection of heritage and linguistics, introducing and defining the concept of heritage literacy through an ethnographic study […]
I am thrilled to announce my new book emerging from my work in the Sino-Muslim Heritage Literacy project (funded by the Leverhulme Trust, see here). This book, a Cambridge Element, brings together some important strands in the data collection from the project and I hope that it will […]
The practice of stone carving is an important part of Chinese history, art, and culture, and likely one of mankind’s oldest crafts. This video presents a fascinating confluence of stone carving and traditional Islamic calligraphy. The video shows how Wang Fengtong [王凤桐], along with three generations of his family, carved […]
I am pleased to announce that I have won a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for a project which focuses on what has been an area of interest of mine for the last few years. The project is entitled ‘Literacy and Harmony: A study of Sino-Muslim heritage literacies in modern […]
I recently became interested in Ottoman literacies (see previous post), and came across another aspect of that history which piqued my interest: the Ottoman board game Şatranc-i Urefa. I finally managed to track down the game to play at home. Şatranc-i Urefa is a game that was played […]
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