Daniel Jacobius Morgan
@jacobius.bsky.social
Asst. Professor, Santa Clara University
Historian of Sufism, Islamic reform and political theology in Mughal South Asia.
Historian of Sufism, Islamic reform and political theology in Mughal South Asia.
Pinned
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I'm delighted that this piece is finally seeing the light of day. I began working on it during my MPhil under Francis Robinson almost fourteen (!) years ago. Not much - if anything - has survived from the original but reminds me of a very happy time...
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Call for applications: The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholars program at ACLS—eligible scholars are invited to apply for positions in the US, Canada, and UK by January 27.
The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholars
Buddhism Public Scholars use their expertise to bolster the capacity of host organizations in the area of Buddhist art and thought.
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January 12, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Call for applications: The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Buddhism Public Scholars program at ACLS—eligible scholars are invited to apply for positions in the US, Canada, and UK by January 27.
Another book to look forward to in 2026!
my book, _Islamic Ethics and Spiritual Sovereignty: Genres of Tradition in Muslim South Asia_, will be published by @undpress.bsky.social in June 2026
i'm going through the proofs, and don't see any typos in the epilogue, so sharing this 3-page essay here
undpress.nd.edu/978026821090...
i'm going through the proofs, and don't see any typos in the epilogue, so sharing this 3-page essay here
undpress.nd.edu/978026821090...
January 12, 2026 at 7:28 PM
Another book to look forward to in 2026!
And another Alam-Subrahamanyam is also arriving in Feburary...a feast for historians of the Mughal world!
sunypress.edu/Books/M/Mirr...
sunypress.edu/Books/M/Mirr...
Mirrors of Empire
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January 12, 2026 at 5:16 PM
And another Alam-Subrahamanyam is also arriving in Feburary...a feast for historians of the Mughal world!
sunypress.edu/Books/M/Mirr...
sunypress.edu/Books/M/Mirr...
Absolutely cannot wait to see this come out next month. The editors - Asad Ahmed and his students at Berkeley - are doing groundbreaking work on the intellectual history of the Timurid/Mughal period...
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Islamic Intellectual History in the Mughal World
Cambridge Core - South Asian History - Islamic Intellectual History in the Mughal World
resolve.cambridge.org
January 12, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Absolutely cannot wait to see this come out next month. The editors - Asad Ahmed and his students at Berkeley - are doing groundbreaking work on the intellectual history of the Timurid/Mughal period...
resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/i...
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Here, the authors present a pair of third-millennium BC copper cymbals, excavated at Dahwa, #Oman ... Not only do the cymbals add to...evidence interpreted in terms of Indus migrants in Early Bronze Age Oman, they also suggest shared musical and potentially ritual practices around the Arabian Gulf.
Bronze Age cymbals from Dahwa: Indus musical traditions in Oman | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
Bronze Age cymbals from Dahwa: Indus musical traditions in Oman - Volume 99 Issue 404
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January 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Here, the authors present a pair of third-millennium BC copper cymbals, excavated at Dahwa, #Oman ... Not only do the cymbals add to...evidence interpreted in terms of Indus migrants in Early Bronze Age Oman, they also suggest shared musical and potentially ritual practices around the Arabian Gulf.
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BOOKS, BINDINGS AND BIBLIOPHILIA IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD: This short course in the codicology of Arabic/Persian manuscripts is coming up at SOAS in February, with fantastic speakers, and I'll be giving the talk on (well, what else?) ink materials and pigments.
www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-c...
www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-c...
Books, bindings and bibliophilia in the Islamic World
This in-person course will introduce participants to the field of codicology of manuscripts copied in the Near East, North Africa, and Central Asia, primarily in Arabic and Persian.
www.soas.ac.uk
January 7, 2026 at 3:26 PM
BOOKS, BINDINGS AND BIBLIOPHILIA IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD: This short course in the codicology of Arabic/Persian manuscripts is coming up at SOAS in February, with fantastic speakers, and I'll be giving the talk on (well, what else?) ink materials and pigments.
www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-c...
www.soas.ac.uk/study/find-c...
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If they’re not careful the FIFA Peace Prize is gonna mean nothing
January 3, 2026 at 2:51 PM
If they’re not careful the FIFA Peace Prize is gonna mean nothing
On a personal level it’s been a whirlwind of year: had a child, became a US citizen, presented work in Uzbekistan and Marseille, had two articles published, submitted a translation of an Arabic treatise on dreaming, and taught 100+ students. Hoping 2026 will be slightly less eventful…
December 28, 2025 at 11:20 PM
On a personal level it’s been a whirlwind of year: had a child, became a US citizen, presented work in Uzbekistan and Marseille, had two articles published, submitted a translation of an Arabic treatise on dreaming, and taught 100+ students. Hoping 2026 will be slightly less eventful…
Lovely anecdote from Vikram Seth’s Two Lives where he discusses his German Jewish aunt crying after being served Marmite at the home of the famous Islamic studies scholar AJ Arberry where she worked after fleeing Berlin in 1939. #Marmite #Britishdelicacies
December 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Lovely anecdote from Vikram Seth’s Two Lives where he discusses his German Jewish aunt crying after being served Marmite at the home of the famous Islamic studies scholar AJ Arberry where she worked after fleeing Berlin in 1939. #Marmite #Britishdelicacies
The whole family has been struck down with the flu except me so I‘m sitting down to a full roast dinner alone like some kind of millionaire recluse.
December 24, 2025 at 1:25 AM
The whole family has been struck down with the flu except me so I‘m sitting down to a full roast dinner alone like some kind of millionaire recluse.
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Quick check: you’ve told everyone to not vote for Rishi Kumar right?
December 24, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Quick check: you’ve told everyone to not vote for Rishi Kumar right?
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December 22, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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“What should have been a single, final document dump is instead a steady trickle of releases, each being pored over as it comes out. The latest drop, of some 11,000 documents, came overnight. People will want evidence and the story just keeps getting fed, and becoming bigger.”
Trump is scared by the Epstein release - and here's the proof
The President has thrown everything he had at distracting from this story and none of it has worked
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December 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
“What should have been a single, final document dump is instead a steady trickle of releases, each being pored over as it comes out. The latest drop, of some 11,000 documents, came overnight. People will want evidence and the story just keeps getting fed, and becoming bigger.”
I spent a week trying to find a single 18th Persian manuscript in an archive missing a wall and in which every book shelved less than three feet from the ground was irreparably damaged by monsoon rain and subsequent mold. I never found the manuscript.
I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.
December 23, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I spent a week trying to find a single 18th Persian manuscript in an archive missing a wall and in which every book shelved less than three feet from the ground was irreparably damaged by monsoon rain and subsequent mold. I never found the manuscript.
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UNC following the inglorious footsteps of Indiana University, currently making big headlines in…football… while gutting world famous area studies and other programs.
All the centers they’re cutting add up to less than $7 million in spending.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
UNC athletics budget is $185.4 million for the 2025-26 fiscal year.
December 18, 2025 at 3:49 AM
UNC following the inglorious footsteps of Indiana University, currently making big headlines in…football… while gutting world famous area studies and other programs.
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A form of censorship more powerful than a mere book ban
Center for European Studies, African Studies Center, Carolina Asia Center, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Institute for the Study of the Americas and Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close.
Center for European Studies, African Studies Center, Carolina Asia Center, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Institute for the Study of the Americas and Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close.
America First, at America’s first public university.
UNC cuts all six area studies research centers, effective 2026
As part of the University's plan to make $70 million in budget cuts across the institution, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Operations Nate Knuffman projected that cutting 14 centers and institutes in...
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December 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
A form of censorship more powerful than a mere book ban
Center for European Studies, African Studies Center, Carolina Asia Center, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Institute for the Study of the Americas and Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close.
Center for European Studies, African Studies Center, Carolina Asia Center, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies, Institute for the Study of the Americas and Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies are all slated to close.
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Just in case you thought people learned the lesson from DOGE... I think they might have learned a different lesson:
December 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Just in case you thought people learned the lesson from DOGE... I think they might have learned a different lesson:
“Sure, there’s a book that tells you how this is supposed to go and how you’re supposed to handle things. But you’ve never been a by-the-book kind of person. You’re driven purely by instinct and caffeine, and it’s always worked out fine.”
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www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/are...
Are You Baking Cookies with Children or Starring in a Gritty Crime Procedural?
1. Every single surface of the room is sticky and coated with a fine, white powder.
2. You’ve shouted, “Don’t touch that! Bag that up right now! Ba...
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December 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
“Sure, there’s a book that tells you how this is supposed to go and how you’re supposed to handle things. But you’ve never been a by-the-book kind of person. You’re driven purely by instinct and caffeine, and it’s always worked out fine.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/are...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/are...
Although the more I think about it, quite a few things in here seem to be “borrowed” from my diss…including the painting that illustrates the piece. Maybe that’s why I like it so much… 😬😬
For anyone interested in the thought and legacy of Shah Wali Allah Dihlawi, this essay is an absolute masterpiece.
traversingtradition.com/2025/11/10/h...
traversingtradition.com/2025/11/10/h...
How an Anglo-Gujrati Mufti Kept the Vows of Shāh Walī Allāh in America
This essay charts both the life and the afterlife of Shāh Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī, the preeminent thinker of the late Mughal empire, whose synthesis of revelation, philosophy, and mysticism sought to…
traversingtradition.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Although the more I think about it, quite a few things in here seem to be “borrowed” from my diss…including the painting that illustrates the piece. Maybe that’s why I like it so much… 😬😬
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Our services will be affected between 8 and 12 December due to planned strike action at our St Pancras site. This includes an extension to our current collection access suspension.
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Planned strike action in St Pancras
We have been notified of planned strike action taking place between Monday 8 and Friday 12 December 2025.
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December 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Our services will be affected between 8 and 12 December due to planned strike action at our St Pancras site. This includes an extension to our current collection access suspension.
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website. bit.ly/StrikeAction...
To check what’s impacted, please visit our website. bit.ly/StrikeAction...
For anyone interested in the thought and legacy of Shah Wali Allah Dihlawi, this essay is an absolute masterpiece.
traversingtradition.com/2025/11/10/h...
traversingtradition.com/2025/11/10/h...
How an Anglo-Gujrati Mufti Kept the Vows of Shāh Walī Allāh in America
This essay charts both the life and the afterlife of Shāh Walī Allāh al-Dihlawī, the preeminent thinker of the late Mughal empire, whose synthesis of revelation, philosophy, and mysticism sought to…
traversingtradition.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:28 AM
For anyone interested in the thought and legacy of Shah Wali Allah Dihlawi, this essay is an absolute masterpiece.
traversingtradition.com/2025/11/10/h...
traversingtradition.com/2025/11/10/h...
I’m looking for recent scholarship on the subject of the spread of Islamophobia through social media. Any recommendations would be most welcome.
December 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I’m looking for recent scholarship on the subject of the spread of Islamophobia through social media. Any recommendations would be most welcome.
Looking forward to traveling to Marseille for this conference next week. I am discussing my current research on the reception and use of Shadhili texts - especially Hizb al-Bahr - in Mughal India.
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South Asia and the Neighboring World in the Mughal Period: Intellectual and Material Exchanges
La définition élargie du « persan » a permis de mieux comprendre les pratiques littéraires et culturelles, l'auto-représentation des élites, le pluralisme religieux et la production artistique. D'autres chercheurs ont souligné les limites et les contraintes de cette approche, notamment en ce qui concerne la dépendance aux récits littéraires persans pour écrire sur l'Asie du Sud prémoderne. Par exemple, les pratiques littéraires en sanskrit et dans les langues vernaculaires ont été de plus en plus prises en compte pour examiner le multilinguisme de la région. Cependant, les approches actuelles, comme le soutient ce projet, ne prennent pas en compte les dynamiques interrégionales spécifiques aux réseaux intellectuels islamiques.
crh.ehess.fr
November 30, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Looking forward to traveling to Marseille for this conference next week. I am discussing my current research on the reception and use of Shadhili texts - especially Hizb al-Bahr - in Mughal India.
crh.ehess.fr/index.php?10...
crh.ehess.fr/index.php?10...
I made mini Bakewell tarts with the five year old this evening. Much harder to do the pastry than if anticipated but they are absolutely delicious.
November 27, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I made mini Bakewell tarts with the five year old this evening. Much harder to do the pastry than if anticipated but they are absolutely delicious.