Taha Firdous Shah

PhD Candidate in Religion @EmoryUniversity /previously MPhil Modern South Asian Studies @cambridge_uni/ BA @ststephensclg/ Islam in South Asia/ poet of visuals

[Taha Firdous Shah @tahafshah]

shades of home.

Khanqah, Srinagar.

[Ishan Fouzdar @ishanfouzdar]

Most Master's degrees in India (can only talk about humanities and social sciences) are nowhere near enough to ready someone for a PhD. As if scrapping the MPhil was not enough this is quite literally a joke on research!

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veiled/walled prayer.

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..and so records Baba Dawūd Khakī on behalf of Shaykh Hamzah Makhdūm

“His company has become disagreeable, for the people of this age
are either objectors, fault-finders, or obstinate deniers”

- source Wird al-Muridīn

gov aes aes hamesh yithi

[Taha Firdous Shah @tahafshah]

..so and so said that sitting in the corner of an archive and sifting through the tattered pages has a joy of its own.

[Ulugbek S. Kamilov @prof_kamilov]

Academia is fascinating. You spend years becoming the world’s expert on something eight people care about, and three of them disagree with you.

[Shah Ahsan Illahi (احسان) @ShahAhsanIllahi]

"Yi tcha sean kasheer, yi tcha myean kasheer"
(This is our Kashmir, This is my Kashmir)

A poem "Myean Kasheer" (My Kashmir) by Zareef Ahmad Zareef dedicated to the land and natives of Kashmir.

[PhD_Genie @PhD_Genie]

Academia doesn't run on a 9-5 work clock; it runs on a 24/7 guilt clock.

[Taha Firdous Shah @tahafshah]

wonders and/or reminders of nature

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all I recall is that it took me no effort to take this picture. That is how picturesque this place is.

somewhere in Istanbul…

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@HamdaniSameer Mubarak! Looking forward to reading this. When is the International Edition coming out?

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@HamdaniSameer completely agreed. To my knowledge, the last hardcopy of the catalogue is from 2011. No update since then.

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Mū’e Mubārak

Of all the well preserved relics from the Prophet’s time housed in Istanbul’s Topkapi Palace, this sight and then the capture touched the deepest.

Almost everyone in Kashmir grew up to the awe of catching a glimpse of the relic from far far away at Hazratbal

[Medusaa @Shykh_89]

My Waalid Sahab just video called me to show the wazwan especially 'tabak maaz' that he was eating and ended the call within 40 seconds saying 'karo ab padhayi'

Arey hum kya koi mandir ka ghata hain? 😭
Meri koi feelings nhi hain?
😭😭😭

[Shah Ahsan Illahi (احسان) @ShahAhsanIllahi]

Arey haan haan, Jhelum Roya
(su ti houl gandith).

[Taha Firdous Shah @tahafshah]

@NaTurkNaHindu Many Congratulations!

[Taha Firdous Shah @tahafshah]

@shireenazam Many congratulations, Shireen.

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Qur'an of Ibrahim Sultan (1394-1435), grandson of Timur. Besides being the governor of Shiraz, he was an accomplished calligrapher in his own right. Signed and dated in June 1427.

From the MET Museum, NY.

[Taha Firdous Shah @tahafshah]

ease it, O Lord!

[Hakim Sameer Hamdani @HamdaniSameer]

Another illuminated Kashmiri Quran, commissioned by an Iranian merchant (shawl?) Muhammad Qasim Jan Khuqandi. Mulla Abdullah Shah b. Habibullah completed the manuscript at Srinagar on 11 Shawwal 1296 AH/ 27 September 1879 CE. Sold at Sotheby's in 2022.

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early morning calm