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.
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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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We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December.
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches.
Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...
Wanted to refresh my Gurmukhi reading skills and somehow ended up with this rather graphic book….
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Wanted to refresh my Gurmukhi reading skills and somehow ended up with this rather graphic book….
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The easier your course, the higher your course evaluations. The higher your course evaluations, the higher your merit and/or greater likelihood your contract will be renewed. It’s a pretty perverse incentive system.
November 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
The easier your course, the higher your course evaluations. The higher your course evaluations, the higher your merit and/or greater likelihood your contract will be renewed. It’s a pretty perverse incentive system.
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#Employment The Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University invites applications for a one-year post-doctoral research associate position in Iranian Studies, with the possibility of renewal. mesana.org/resources-an...
Middle East Studies Association
The Center for Middle East Studies seeks to appoint a scholar of Iranian Studies to a one-year post-doctoral research associate position, with a possibility of renewal for a second year.
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November 7, 2025 at 9:04 PM
#Employment The Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University invites applications for a one-year post-doctoral research associate position in Iranian Studies, with the possibility of renewal. mesana.org/resources-an...
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I’m putting together a panel on early modern Persianate epistolary documents/letter writing in South Asia for AAS in Lahore next year. We have three great paper proposals but ideally looking for one more.… feel free to get in touch if you’d be interested in joining us.
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I’m putting together a panel on early modern Persianate epistolary documents/letter writing in South Asia for AAS in Lahore next year. We have three great paper proposals but ideally looking for one more.… feel free to get in touch if you’d be interested in joining us.
I’m putting together a panel on early modern Persianate epistolary documents/letter writing in South Asia for AAS in Lahore next year. We have three great paper proposals but ideally looking for one more.… feel free to get in touch if you’d be interested in joining us.
November 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
I’m putting together a panel on early modern Persianate epistolary documents/letter writing in South Asia for AAS in Lahore next year. We have three great paper proposals but ideally looking for one more.… feel free to get in touch if you’d be interested in joining us.
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I can't believe people voted for this guy
People of Santa Clara County.
Put this on your calendar NOW.
You need to vote AGAIN on December 30 to make sure Rishi Kumar does not become assessor in this run off election.
Put this on your calendar NOW.
You need to vote AGAIN on December 30 to make sure Rishi Kumar does not become assessor in this run off election.
Hey Santa Clara County voters
Do NOT vote for Rishi Kumar for assessor.
Please reshare to boost!!
Vote for Neysa Fligor.
Do NOT vote for Rishi Kumar for assessor.
Please reshare to boost!!
Vote for Neysa Fligor.
November 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I can't believe people voted for this guy
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Right on. And humanities also teach skills & dispositions which render those trained in them less susceptible to the kinds of propaganda by which powerful interests seek to control populations. They also teach you to write & speak intelligently, which Mamdani is very good at. Come study humanities!
Mamdani got a humanities degree.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.
November 5, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Right on. And humanities also teach skills & dispositions which render those trained in them less susceptible to the kinds of propaganda by which powerful interests seek to control populations. They also teach you to write & speak intelligently, which Mamdani is very good at. Come study humanities!
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Most humanities depts have those slightly cheesy lists and brochures meant to attract new majors and minors, “What you can do with a history/philosophy/religious studies/African studies/etc degree”.
Time to update our lists to include: “Mayor of New York”
Time to update our lists to include: “Mayor of New York”
November 5, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Most humanities depts have those slightly cheesy lists and brochures meant to attract new majors and minors, “What you can do with a history/philosophy/religious studies/African studies/etc degree”.
Time to update our lists to include: “Mayor of New York”
Time to update our lists to include: “Mayor of New York”
Interesting to note how recently the semantic field of the word ‘terrible’ contracted/shifted to mean only ‘very bad’.
When you got a good blurb and you want to show it off. cc @nickharkaway.com!
November 5, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Interesting to note how recently the semantic field of the word ‘terrible’ contracted/shifted to mean only ‘very bad’.
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Cheney, architect of endless war, helped kill our faith in leaders flip.it/wWhpax
Cheney, architect of endless war, helped kill our faith in leaders
George W. Bush's vice president, who died today, was probably the most powerful veep in history, but at America's expense
flip.it
November 4, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Cheney, architect of endless war, helped kill our faith in leaders flip.it/wWhpax
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As Zohran Mamdani wins the New York election, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social special, an interview with his father, my friend the wonderful Professor Mahmoud Mamdani on his family's history in East Africa & their journey to America. Zohran zindabad!
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November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
As Zohran Mamdani wins the New York election, check out our @empirepoduk.bsky.social special, an interview with his father, my friend the wonderful Professor Mahmoud Mamdani on his family's history in East Africa & their journey to America. Zohran zindabad!
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But they did instigate a mass surveillance programme, legalize torture, invade two countries on a false pretext leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, normalize extra judicial assassinations etc… also they did put many non-criminals in black sites (Gitmo, Bagram) so…
I got so much hate last time I said this:
Even after 9/11, the Bush admin did not declare martial law, cancel elections, or put non-criminals in cages. They showed self-constraint and deserve some credit for that.
Even after 9/11, the Bush admin did not declare martial law, cancel elections, or put non-criminals in cages. They showed self-constraint and deserve some credit for that.
November 5, 2025 at 12:48 PM
But they did instigate a mass surveillance programme, legalize torture, invade two countries on a false pretext leading to hundreds of thousands of deaths, normalize extra judicial assassinations etc… also they did put many non-criminals in black sites (Gitmo, Bagram) so…
Our department has a cabinet of recent publications and - for the first time time - I have three things in there! Feeling quite pleased with myself. 😅
November 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Our department has a cabinet of recent publications and - for the first time time - I have three things in there! Feeling quite pleased with myself. 😅
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Absolutely shocking that the Chinese govt pressured a UK university to shut down research about forced labour in Xinjiang and the links to global supply chains. The work of Laura Murphy and her team had been instrumental in getting Chinese companies sanctioned.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
UK university halted human rights research after pressure from China
Exclusive: Leading professor at Sheffield Hallam was told to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China after demands from authorities
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Absolutely shocking that the Chinese govt pressured a UK university to shut down research about forced labour in Xinjiang and the links to global supply chains. The work of Laura Murphy and her team had been instrumental in getting Chinese companies sanctioned.
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
www.theguardian.com/education/20...
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ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
November 3, 2025 at 8:16 PM
ON THE LITERAL EVE OF A DEMOCRATIC SOCIALIST MAYOR BEING ELECTED, ANNA WINTOUR KILLS PROGRESSIVE AND PROFITABLE TEEN VOGUE POLITICS DESK WHICH HAD JUST INTERVIEWED HIM
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
*That’s* the headline.
(Unfortunately there’s hardly any news outlet left to run it 😭)
One of the most interesting things that I came across while writing this article is that ʿUbayd Allāh Sindhī's amanuensis Nur al-Ḥaqq ʿAlawī seems to have been the same Nūr al-Ḥaqq who was sought out by the poet Muhammad Iqbal a couple of decades earlier for help reading metaphysics/philosophy.
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...
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com/view/journal...
brill.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
One of the most interesting things that I came across while writing this article is that ʿUbayd Allāh Sindhī's amanuensis Nur al-Ḥaqq ʿAlawī seems to have been the same Nūr al-Ḥaqq who was sought out by the poet Muhammad Iqbal a couple of decades earlier for help reading metaphysics/philosophy.
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Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
November 3, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
Feeling quite chuffed that my vichysoisse won a friends’ soup making contest this evening! Even better than my five-year old helped peel the potatoes, wash the leeks and pour the cream. She even ate some..!
November 2, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Feeling quite chuffed that my vichysoisse won a friends’ soup making contest this evening! Even better than my five-year old helped peel the potatoes, wash the leeks and pour the cream. She even ate some..!
I hate living in a media ecosystem in which I am forced to know about the ramblings of morons.
Kim Kardashian has been supping at the idiot buffet of Fake Moon Landing Conspiracy, and unfortunately, that means that millions of people will start believing nonsense again.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Kim Kardashian: Nasa hits back at reality star's moon landing conspiracy
In a recent episode of her TV series, the reality star said she believed the moon landing was fake.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I hate living in a media ecosystem in which I am forced to know about the ramblings of morons.
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Looking forward to traveling *all the way up to Evanston❗* next Wednesday to speak on my book, Pious Labor, at the new Languages of Islam workshop through the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. Details here!
The Languages of Muslim 'Pious Labor' - Amanda Lanzillo 11/5/2025
Speaker: Amanda Lanzillo, Assistant Professor, Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, The University of Chicago Artisans in colonial India were not passive subjects of…
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October 31, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Looking forward to traveling *all the way up to Evanston❗* next Wednesday to speak on my book, Pious Labor, at the new Languages of Islam workshop through the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. Details here!