Daniel Jacobius Morgan

Keep meaning to do this but never sure of the process. Thanks for sharing

From the front page of today’s FT. #onlyinamerica

My remembrance of my teacher, C.M. Naim

It looks fantastic. Can’t wait to read it.

Dear Colleagues, We are writing because you have expressed interest in Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East or related areas of study through Duke University Press. We would like to encourage you to consider submitting your research to CSSAAME or developing a special section or Kitabkhana for the journal. In addition, we hope you will keep us in mind as you encounter promising and established scholars presenting research that would fit well with us. Below please find a new call for papers. The call and more information about how to submit to the journal are available on the journal's webpage. Please do pass this information along to your own networks. Cover of the journal 'Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East,' Volume 45, Number 1, May 2025, featuring an abstract black and white illustration of a face surrounded by geometric shapes and symbols. As you may know, CSSAAME is devoted to publishing scholarship deeply rooted in the history, culture, and intellectual traditions of our areas of concern—often emerging from and mindful of the fraught epistemic politics of area studies. We particularly encourage projects that address current crises, such as those in Gaza, Iran, and Sudan. We encourage projects that push at the boundaries of conventional scholarly forms while also offering full scholarly peer review and rigorous academic engagement. Both of us are delighted to discuss potential submissions and special section proposals and would be happy to set up Zoom meetings with prospective organizers. Once again, thank you for your generosity, and we hope to be in touch soon. All best wishes, Manan Ahmed and Steven Pierce Senior Editors

A Call for submissions from *Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East* hosted at @dukepress.bsky.social. Happy to answer any queries!

One of Urdu’s Greatest Scholars, C.M. Naim, Passes Away The UP-born professor was said to be among the finest and authoritative voices on Urdu.

One of Urdu’s Greatest Scholars, C.M. Naim, Passes Away

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Just by coincidence i had been reading translation of Zikr-i Mir this week. What a loss.

Very sad to learn of the passing of the inimitable C.M. Naim, one of the finest teachers I have had the pleasure to learn from.

Our ceremony last month was in a parking lot opposite Costco and McDonalds. Drive through format.

Oh wow! Thank you 😮😮

Thanks for this!

Thanks Dean! 1) Muhammad Murad Tang, tuhfat al fuqara and 2) Ahmad ibn abd al subur, khawariq al salikin.

@amandazillo.bsky.social @giannisievers.bsky.social any ideas?

I'm looking to access two manuscripts that are (according to Abdul Majid Mattoo's book on Kashmir) held at "Research Library, Srinagar". Does anyone know anything about this institution or (better yet) have any contacts there who could help me acquire copies of the relevant mss?

City of Lyrics | Nathan L. M. Tabor | University of North Carolina Press For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for mushāʿirahs, literary competitions for spoken-word verse. Today the mushāʿirah i...

looking forward to this!

uncpress.org/book/9781469...

I HAVE NOW RESTORED THE ROMAN EMPIRE. THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL CEASEFIRE IN ITALY THERE IS NO WAR WITH THE GOTHS AND THERE IS UNIVERSAL PROSPERITY, ANYBODY SPREADING RUMOURS ABOUT A plague IS WRONG, THER IS ALSO NO HERESY ANYMORE ALL IS ORTHODOX

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, YOUR EMPEROR

Reminds me of my trying to eat the corn husk of a tamale when I’d just moved to the US.

“Facilitated a 20% YoY increase in the englishing of quatrains.”

Register for the San Francisco Mission District tour • Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour (or use this link)

We recently launched a San Francisco South Asian Radical History Walking Tour

Our public SF opening weekend is coming up July 12 and 13, and over half the spots are already registered.

Here are the details:

www.berkeleysouthasian.org

www.berkeleysouthasian.org/tour/sf/

Lots of my archives are very dusty (plus occasional mold and mildew!)

Dark with power, we remain
the invaders of our land, leaving
deserts where forests were,
scars where there were hills.

On the mountains, on the rivers,
on the cities, on the farmlands
we lay weighted hands, our breath
potent with the death of all things.

Wendell Berry

Persian was a, if not the, major language of political and cultural prodution in much of South Asia for nearly 700 years until the middle decades of the 1800s (and the advent of colonial education)

Relatedly, if you haven't been in an archives you have no idea just how much historical material is not online, not even a digital record of it. An LLM cannot research data it doesn't have. It can't even extrapolate where to find that material.

Substack Post: Karachi’s Treasure Troves of Texts

Started a Substack. First piece: Karachi’s book world—with a nod to how deportation of Afghan refugees may affect book trade.

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I started a Substack. My first post is a complete translation of this 5-line poem (not the three here) with some commentary.

classyarabic.substack.com/p/hashish-vs...

Younger daughter discovering that she has hands and that she can do things with them.

I miss the incredible thunder storms we used to get in Chicago.

Arrighi’s diagnosis (from 1994) helps clarify the multiple interconnected global crises unfolding today. What new hegemony will emerge in the wake of our crumbling order?

The joys of paleography...spent days looking at this 18th century Indian place name before I worked out what it was meant to be. Any guesses? :D

FROM ETERNITY TO APOCALYPSE: TIME, NEWS, AND HISTORY BETWEEN THE MUGHAL AND BRITISH EMPIRES, 1556–1785 The eighteenth-century origins of colonial orientalism in India spurred not just the translation of Indian texts but the production of interstitial histories, works that were forged in the intellectu...

#ArticleSnapshot📸: Abhishek Kaicker's "From Eternity to Apocalypse" examines an "interstitial history" and "the origins of the pervasive misconception that Mughal historical thought had faded to insignificance in the eighteenth century."

Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/hith...