Simone Morgante

History, civilizations, religions.

I love to conversate!

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[Simone Morgante @SimoMorgante]

A citizen unaware of his role is like a child. It isn't a coincidence that in moments of fear, social or economic crisis, people choose a dictator, a strong man. Someone who, with the authoritarian imposition of the law, momentarily reassures the masses who seek the lost father.

[Simone Morgante @SimoMorgante]

The Forgotten Links Between Sanskrit and the Mughal State https://t.co/PZ5m3Uzzq1

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

Kolkata's first gallery dedicated to the history of its Chinese community has just opened in the city's old Chinatown, off Central Avenue.

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[Simone Morgante @SimoMorgante]

A quick but mandatory stop at Lal Qila in #Delhi today. I'll never get tired of saying it: Delhi is the city in India, perhaps in the world, that reminds me the most of my hometown, Rome. In both of them, you find #history around every corner, often in the most unexpected places.

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Odin hung on the World Tree for nine days to win sacred knowledge for humanity. Christ died on the Cross to redeem it. The Viking settlers of the Danelaw saw the parallel. They put both on the same stone at Gosforth and let them speak to each other. This wasn't confused theology. It was serious thinking by people navigating between two sacred worlds and finding more common ground than either tradition officially admitted. 🔨✝️https://t.co/CvBe7Mbf1y

[Indian Muslim Archives @Rustum_0]

Rohankhed Mosque; Nizam Shahi.

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

The Tomb of Viceroy Lord Curzon

In the small All Saints Church of Northern England stands the tomb of one of the most consequential figures in South Asian history: Lord Curzon.

[Simone Morgante @SimoMorgante]

@CNN Nomen omen

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@ibeenyoung_ Yes, that's not a surprise, especially considering that Aurangzeb was just 1/4 of central asian descent

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'We Do Not Need Linguistic Ghettos': A Conversation About Pakistan’s Sanskrit Revival, Language and Identity https://t.co/tJJAzyz36o

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How Mughal emperors embraced a syncretic sartorial sensibility https://t.co/wIfsQGP0GY

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When historic markers of Madras go missing - The Hindu https://t.co/XD049M9JgL

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Una cassetta degli attrezzi contro i travisamenti della storia | il manifesto https://t.co/EDIcu8q1el

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The Lodge where Madras’ history was written - The Hindu https://t.co/qD8AJ8x1NF

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How the Two Partitioned Nations Choose to Remember Their Past https://t.co/hjSYLCZbEX via @thewire_In

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Cazzullo in Africa, un'occasione persa - Jacobin Italia https://t.co/x5w8Tv7FjX

[Rana Safvi رعنا राना @iamrana]

The Hindu disciple of a Muslim saint in Shah Jahan’s India
A 17th-century manuscript indicates that identity and religion in the Mughal Empire were intertwined in ways that defy modern, polarised accounts.
Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi
@scroll_in @Rezavi
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[Simone Morgante @SimoMorgante]

@Timurid_Mughal Yes, the character and the life of Dara Shikoh has often been romanticized first and foremost, at least on the popular culture, because of an aversion to Aurangzeb.

[Naoki Yamamoto @NaokiQYamamoto]

"奉 Subhanallah"
When read vertically, it reads as 奉 in Chinese; when rotated 90 degrees to the right, it reads as Subhanallah in Arabic.

Japanese Islamicate calligraphy inspired by Haj Noor Deen's Sini script.

Calligrapher: Naoki Yamamoto