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The Mughalist: March 2013
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Musings on culture, history, and people of a different time (and those who study them). Friday, March 8, 2013. Daily Dose of E. M. Forster. It has been quite some time since I have picked up and read some fiction, or rather, it's been ages since I've read a novel cover to cover. Since reading Zadie Smith's On Beauty. There have been a few that I've started but abandoned halfway through, choosing instead a work of non-fiction (not all high brow history; Bossypants. Won over A Room with a View. The Pasteur...
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The Mughalist: June 2014
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Musings on culture, history, and people of a different time (and those who study them). Monday, June 2, 2014. Lecture (16): On the Importance of Storytelling and Narrative for Historians and the Discipline of History. Entitled " No More Plan B. It is in the context of these growing set of interrelated concerns that William Cronon delivered his Presidential Address entitled "Storytelling" at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in 2013 made available here. Chicago: University of Chica...
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The Mughalist: January 2013
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Musings on culture, history, and people of a different time (and those who study them). Monday, January 7, 2013. Lecture (10): O Majnun, Why So Blue? As a bit of early January serendipity, I came across a lecture by a true doyenne of Persian (and Arabic! Literature, Julie Scott Meisami, entitled "'I Guess That's Why They Call it the Blues': Depictions of Majnun in Persian Illustrated Manuscripts," given at the 2009 Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art. Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art.
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The Mughalist: October 2012
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Musings on culture, history, and people of a different time (and those who study them). Tuesday, October 30, 2012. Well said: The “. Is, of course, always apparitional, always a reductionist fantasy [.]. Yet acknowledging the fantasy of “. Does not, I think, reduce history to fiction; historians can still seek out a more multivalent and still substantial “. Plausible. ”. 9 no 1-2 (2009): 1-2ff. Judith M. Bennet. Tuesday, October 23, 2012. Offering Counsel to the Great Mughal. Which, it turns out , was.
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The Mughalist: September 2012
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Musings on culture, history, and people of a different time (and those who study them). Saturday, September 29, 2012. That Javier Bardem secretly had a career as a Pakistani movie actor. Image courtesy of The Hotspot. Tuesday, September 18, 2012. There are few things that I love more than a well preserved giant lithograph. Though a well-indexed text is not far behind. Saturday, September 15, 2012. Parental Guidance and Universal Truths. Ed Ruben Levy (London: Luzac and Co., 1951), p. 5. The blog is an on...
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The Mughalist: December 2014
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Musings on culture, history, and people of a different time (and those who study them). Saturday, December 20, 2014. Crash Course: Akbar, Aurangzeb, and the Historian's Perspective. The good folks at at Crash Course have a delightful present for those interested in Mughal history! The video is available here. And is embedded below. Errata: Aurangzeb was Akbar's great-grandson, not grandson). Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). About this humble wretch. Crash Course: Akbar, Aurangzeb, and the Historian. Thinking ...
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The Mughalist: February 2013
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Musings on culture, history, and people of a different time (and those who study them). Monday, February 4, 2013. On Not Talking About Pakistan. On Facebook today I happened to click on a link from a friend who rarely posts anything about anything and it turned to be an essay by Taymiya R. Zaman with the provocative title "Not Talking About Pakistan". Well that would be a first, I thought, given how often everyone liked to talk about Pakistan. Just this Friday I attended a talk on ʻ. Taymiya R. Zaman.
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touching with fingers the naked body of dreams ...: Journey Between Caterpillar to Butterfly
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Touching with fingers the naked body of dreams . Some mine, some not; some alive, some not. Friday, July 31, 2015. Journey Between Caterpillar to Butterfly. Patience does not mean to passively endure. It means to be farsighted enough to trust the end result of a process. What does patience mean? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again. Ours is not a caravan of despair." - Rumi. The beloved you’ve lost,. Promote Your Page Too.
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