Columbia University has always been a main hub of Zionist anti-Palestinian fascist censorship. When Edward Said taught there he was constantly subjected to harassment, death and bomb threats, Zionists infiltrating his classes, smearing him as a "terrorist". Nothing has changed

1. The layout of Mattan, a revered tiratha site for Kashmir Pandits borrows from Mughal landscape in the form and design of the pools, the chinars. This is not surprising given that according to the native priests, the site was endowed by the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb.

Are you an early career scholar in socio-legal studies? Consider the "Law in Context" Early Career Workshop, sponsored by the International Journal of Law in Context and CSLS Faculty of Law. 📝 Applications are due 25 April. Learn more [pdf]: cup.org/3D3DH9q #callforpapers #sociolegal

Stunning Safavid-era folios from the Panj Ganj of Nizami Ganjavi (12th c. CE), one of the greatest romantic-epic poets in Persian literature. These paintings, by Shaikh Zada, depict Bahram Gur in the Yellow Palace on Sunday, White Palace on Friday, and Sandal Palace on Thursday,

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Call for Papers by 7 April for ‘Materiality, Society and the More-than-Human Conference 2025’ a BSANewMaterialism event, 23 June, Goldsmiths, London #sociology #cfp tinyurl.com/2zep2d3x

Thinking about Nimat Ali Khan, the 17th c. satirist, who frequently took potshots at Mughal elite including mocking Alamgir Aurangzeb for the losses in the Deccan campaign. Ali was never “punished” for his ferocious political commentary & continued to enjoy imperial patronage.

Reminder that the legal history pilot workshop is scheduled later this week. We are excited to host the event. And, we would love to see you there!

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗲? These two essays by intellectual historian Quentin Skinner discuss the early history of the concept of the state. Download The State: bresserpereira.org.br/terceiros/curs… Download A Genealogy: thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/2073…

Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India Ellison Banks Findly. Oxford Univ Pr 1993 PDF 🎯 archive.org/download/nurja… archive.org/details/nurjah… archive.org/details/nur-ja…

What did people of Srinagar do to this beautiful Nalamar stream? They swallowed this entire stream like Yajooj Majooj will swallow a lake in Palestine.

The Sufis of Bijapur, 1300-1700 Social Roles of Sufis in Medieval India Richard Maxwell Eaton . Princeton Univ Pr 1978, 1996 archive.org/details/bk1134… PDF 🎯 archive.org/download/bk113… independent.academia.edu/RichardEaton1

Imagine getting deported from a country where you’re a legal resident. A country that calls itself a democracy. A country whose most prestigious government scholarship, the Fulbright, you won. All because you coauthored this nuanced & articulate op-ed in the student newspaper ⬇️

Defining Boundaries in al-Andalus: Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Islamic Iberia Janina M. Safran .Cornell Univ Pr 2013 google.com.eg/books/edition/… muse.jhu.edu/pub/255/monogr… independent.academia.edu/ninasafran

I will present my book this Thursday, April 3rd, at Yale University. Time: 4:00 PM Location: William Harkness Hall, Room 309 Many thanks to Samaah, Department of Religious Studies and the South Asian Studies Council for organizing!

Now reading

Finally got my hands on Alexander Jabbari’s _The Making of Persianate Modernity_ and beginning in May I’ll be reading it aloud to Rasgulla Billa

Look fwd to returning to School of International Relations University of St Andrews for the inaugural Decolonial Methodologies conference on Fri 25 Apr: I'll be speaking about our intellectual & ethical responsibilities as scholars under the shadow of fascism and genocide

New arrival! "Gunpowder technology in the Fifteenth century: A study, edition and translation of the Firework Book" By Axel E. W. Müller Boydell & Brewer Caroline Palmer

These two books by Australian historian Lloyd Christopher offer a very useful, philosophically-based critical survey of key issue in a historical social science. He criticizes relativism and favors realism. He emphasizes causation.