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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“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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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.”
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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.
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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…
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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.
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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...
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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.
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and then this on how freelancing was already degraded prior to the influx of fake AI bullshit. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/journalist...
Journalists Have Been Turning Into AI Slop For Years
ChatGPT is the ideal employee
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November 26, 2025 at 4:35 AM
and then this on how freelancing was already degraded prior to the influx of fake AI bullshit. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/journalist...
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Scholars & historians of Islam, ICYMI
Haven’t posted about this in a long time, but with #AARSBL & #MESA both happening, a friendly reminder that we have an Islamic Studies starter pack/list on here.
Scholars, give these folks a follow, spread the word, and let me know if you’d like to be added to the list. #IslamicStudies, #acrel, 🗃️
Scholars, give these folks a follow, spread the word, and let me know if you’d like to be added to the list. #IslamicStudies, #acrel, 🗃️
November 25, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Scholars & historians of Islam, ICYMI
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Assistant Prof of Religion, World Christianity, opening:
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November 25, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Assistant Prof of Religion, World Christianity, opening:
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refuge from Nazism falls victim to Nazism
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 6:34 PM
refuge from Nazism falls victim to Nazism
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I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
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November 18, 2025 at 6:27 AM
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies- Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin - School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK381/a...
Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies on jobs.ac.uk!
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November 18, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Assistant Professor in Southeast Asian Studies- Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin - School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Sciences #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK381/a...
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Listening to American podcasts is such a wild ride. You’ll go from a segment explaining why whatever issue is being discussed is just a symptom of late-stage capitalism into seamless segue like “and because living under capitalism is such a stress, I’m delighted to be sponsored today by betterhelp”
November 17, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Listening to American podcasts is such a wild ride. You’ll go from a segment explaining why whatever issue is being discussed is just a symptom of late-stage capitalism into seamless segue like “and because living under capitalism is such a stress, I’m delighted to be sponsored today by betterhelp”
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The latest issue of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO) is out now!
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November 17, 2025 at 9:22 AM
The latest issue of the Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JESHO) is out now!
More details here: brill.com/view/journal...
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
More details here: brill.com/view/journal...
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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Sadly, I’m not surprised. I don’t think any history course I took at school even mentioned slavery or indenture. I hoped things might have changed since 2005 but these survey results suggest not.
holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Caribbean reparations leaders in ‘historic’ first UK visit to press for justice
CRC mission will seek to deepen public understanding of Britain’s colonial legacy and its lasting impact
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November 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Sadly, I’m not surprised. I don’t think any history course I took at school even mentioned slavery or indenture. I hoped things might have changed since 2005 but these survey results suggest not.
5 year old solemnly informed me that she had found “a whack“ in her ear. Took a while to work out what she meant but turns out she had been hearing “wax” as plural “whacks”… which makes total sense!
November 17, 2025 at 3:58 AM
5 year old solemnly informed me that she had found “a whack“ in her ear. Took a while to work out what she meant but turns out she had been hearing “wax” as plural “whacks”… which makes total sense!
Reading a fascinating Urdu text describing a trip to Palestine in the 1920s. According to the Indian Muslim author, he had a conversation with a Jewish man urging Jewish-Muslim unity to break the Christian colonial "flood". Can any historians of mandate Palestine tell me how common these ideas were?
November 15, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Reading a fascinating Urdu text describing a trip to Palestine in the 1920s. According to the Indian Muslim author, he had a conversation with a Jewish man urging Jewish-Muslim unity to break the Christian colonial "flood". Can any historians of mandate Palestine tell me how common these ideas were?
Remember reading this mind bending text in Jim Robinson’s class at Chicago… my first introduction to the study of the occult.
Mind-blowingly rare first editions of esoteric books that I got to hold yesterday (courtesy of Justin Sledge), #2 of 5:
First Hebrew printing of Sefer Yetzirah (Mantua, Italy, 1562), the early Kabbalistic account of how G-d created the universe through the 22 letters of the alefbet & the 10 sefirot
First Hebrew printing of Sefer Yetzirah (Mantua, Italy, 1562), the early Kabbalistic account of how G-d created the universe through the 22 letters of the alefbet & the 10 sefirot
November 15, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Remember reading this mind bending text in Jim Robinson’s class at Chicago… my first introduction to the study of the occult.
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Mind-blowingly rare first editions of esoteric books that I got to hold yesterday (courtesy of Justin Sledge), #2 of 5:
First Hebrew printing of Sefer Yetzirah (Mantua, Italy, 1562), the early Kabbalistic account of how G-d created the universe through the 22 letters of the alefbet & the 10 sefirot
First Hebrew printing of Sefer Yetzirah (Mantua, Italy, 1562), the early Kabbalistic account of how G-d created the universe through the 22 letters of the alefbet & the 10 sefirot
November 14, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Mind-blowingly rare first editions of esoteric books that I got to hold yesterday (courtesy of Justin Sledge), #2 of 5:
First Hebrew printing of Sefer Yetzirah (Mantua, Italy, 1562), the early Kabbalistic account of how G-d created the universe through the 22 letters of the alefbet & the 10 sefirot
First Hebrew printing of Sefer Yetzirah (Mantua, Italy, 1562), the early Kabbalistic account of how G-d created the universe through the 22 letters of the alefbet & the 10 sefirot
These are the apartments coming up next to our campus. Definitely a very normal housing market here in Silicon Valley 🙄
November 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
These are the apartments coming up next to our campus. Definitely a very normal housing market here in Silicon Valley 🙄