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.
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.
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?
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 🙄
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….
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. 😅
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..!
A recent article reviewer, in what was quite frankly a hack job of a review, snottily accused me of getting Maḥmūd al-Ḥasan Deobandī's name wrong, insisting that it was properly Maḥmūd Ḥasan. Today, I stumbled upon a reference by his own student Manāẓir Aḥsan Gīlānī. Presented here w/out comment.
October 31, 2025 at 5:50 PM
A recent article reviewer, in what was quite frankly a hack job of a review, snottily accused me of getting Maḥmūd al-Ḥasan Deobandī's name wrong, insisting that it was properly Maḥmūd Ḥasan. Today, I stumbled upon a reference by his own student Manāẓir Aḥsan Gīlānī. Presented here w/out comment.
Who says being a religious studies professor doesn’t have its perks? Today I have been given a beautiful Shalvar kameez by one person and a hand-painted Diwali diya by another.
October 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Who says being a religious studies professor doesn’t have its perks? Today I have been given a beautiful Shalvar kameez by one person and a hand-painted Diwali diya by another.
Very excited to see this piece back from the publisher’s proof reader. My first foray into Islamic astrological magic…with detailed instructions on how to use Saturn’s powers to mess with your enemies!
October 26, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Very excited to see this piece back from the publisher’s proof reader. My first foray into Islamic astrological magic…with detailed instructions on how to use Saturn’s powers to mess with your enemies!
The joys of Interlibrary Loan… bringing the Regenstein to California.
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October 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
The joys of Interlibrary Loan… bringing the Regenstein to California.
وکم من فراق کان قرباًحقیقة
وکم من فراق کان للوصل جالباً
وکم من فراق کان قرباًحقیقة
وکم من فراق کان للوصل جالباً
The Religious Studies Dept at Santa Clara had the great pleasure of hosting Sahibzada Asim Maharvi on our campus this week to discuss Sufism and religious pluralism. He is within a lineage that can be traced back to Nur Muhammad Maharvi and Kalim Allah Jahanabadi.
October 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The Religious Studies Dept at Santa Clara had the great pleasure of hosting Sahibzada Asim Maharvi on our campus this week to discuss Sufism and religious pluralism. He is within a lineage that can be traced back to Nur Muhammad Maharvi and Kalim Allah Jahanabadi.
Glad we have this kind of searingly insightful analysis from the good old NYT…
September 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Glad we have this kind of searingly insightful analysis from the good old NYT…
Why are serious ‘news’ outlets publishing this stuff. Hard to imagine an equivalent headline for any other industry. ‘McDonalds CFO says people must eat more Big Macs or starve to death.‘
September 9, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Why are serious ‘news’ outlets publishing this stuff. Hard to imagine an equivalent headline for any other industry. ‘McDonalds CFO says people must eat more Big Macs or starve to death.‘
Indiscriminate is surely the wrong word…in fact such a headline completely inverts the thrust of the court’s ruling which overtly allows for specific kinds of discrimination (ie perceived race) @nytimes.com
September 9, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Indiscriminate is surely the wrong word…in fact such a headline completely inverts the thrust of the court’s ruling which overtly allows for specific kinds of discrimination (ie perceived race) @nytimes.com
Brilliant - and sadly necessary - defense of the value of area studies from @amandazillo.bsky.social
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
September 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Brilliant - and sadly necessary - defense of the value of area studies from @amandazillo.bsky.social
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Always exciting to get proofs in the inbox… 😅
August 27, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Always exciting to get proofs in the inbox… 😅
Not surprised to see Santa Clara on the list of most expensive counties nationally for childcare (not coincidentally, it is also among the most expensive for housing) 😢😢😢
August 21, 2025 at 3:24 AM
Not surprised to see Santa Clara on the list of most expensive counties nationally for childcare (not coincidentally, it is also among the most expensive for housing) 😢😢😢
Tashkent book haul 😁
August 15, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Tashkent book haul 😁
Traces of home in Tashkent
August 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Traces of home in Tashkent
From the front page of today’s FT. #onlyinamerica
July 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
From the front page of today’s FT. #onlyinamerica
Younger daughter discovering that she has hands and that she can do things with them.
June 16, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Younger daughter discovering that she has hands and that she can do things with them.
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?
June 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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
June 14, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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
The median panel at the Madison South Asia conference
June 13, 2025 at 4:48 AM
The median panel at the Madison South Asia conference