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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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
www.everythingishorrible.net
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
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
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
www.cityam.com
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!
www.jobs.ac.uk
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!
More details here: brill.com/view/journal...
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More details here: brill.com/view/journal...
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
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
www.theguardian.com
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 🙄
Do I know anyone at McGill who would be willing to scan a very short (16 folio) manuscript for me?
a woman wearing glasses and a suit is making a please sign .
ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a suit is making a please sign .
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November 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Do I know anyone at McGill who would be willing to scan a very short (16 folio) manuscript for me?
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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.
mesana.org
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...