Mohammad Bulbul Ashraf Siddiqi

Dr Bulbul Siddiqi is an Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Sociology and the Director of the Confucius Institute at NSU. He has a strong background in academic and development research. He completed doctoral research at Cardiff University, UK, following Ethnographic research methods to understand the Islamic revivalist movement (the Tablighi Jamaat) in the UK and Bangladesh based on long-term fieldwork. The title of his doctoral research was ‘The Tablighi Jamaat in Bangladesh and the UK: an Ethnographic Study of an Islamic Reform Movement’. He also earned MA in Global Citizenship, Identities and Human Rights from the University of Nottingham. During his stay in Cardiff, Dr Siddiqi worked as a part-time research assistant in a project titled ‘The Challenge of Islam: Young Bangladeshis, Marriage and the Family in Bangladesh and the UK’.