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[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

@IlhanNiaz Our mabgoes are delicious, but their speciality is what they do in aeroplanes.

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

God is a philosophical problem; mystical music and poetry, on the other hand, are cultural choices. As a person of literature, someone can like Mir Anees' Marsiyas or someone in the English world would like Homer's Iliad, but that doesn't mean they subscribe to what they preach.

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

What you believe/don't believe on philosophical grounds is different from what you like and dislike on the basis of culture. While philosophy represents your thinking frameworks, your culture represents lexicalisation of certain patterns of behavior.

[heyba @criedfricknn]

for someone who's agnostic, i sure do love listening to tajdar e haram and wohi khuda hai

[Ilhan Niaz @IlhanNiaz]

My review of Selena Wisnom’s The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia & the Making of the Modern World.

If you have time to read just one history book this summer, then make it this one, because, with all the firsts achieved by ancient Mesopotamia, there really isn’t much point in picking up the story from a later point.

The OG of Civs:

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

And... it can not identify new sources and go look for them in dusty haunted places that are not virtually accessible.

[Umair Javed @umairjav]

AI can't do fieldwork (yet). It can't do archival work either. Plenty of interesting qs waiting to be asked and answered by actual effort. Don't let the anxieties/aspirations of quant scholars/secondary data merchants get to you.

[Oxford South Asian Intellectual History Seminar @OxfordSAIH]

Please see the details for our next talk with Sunandan K N. Online and in person at St Antony’s. Link to registration:

https://t.co/r6OVe5G39F

[Ali Usman Qasmi @AU_Qasmi]

California-based Omar Khan has been obsessed with the Indus Valley civilization since he was a teenager. He has been running an excellent resource - https://t.co/Nv7JAHRftO, and now he has produced a captivating short documentary on Mohenjo daro. Do watch it. Amazing work.

Mohenjo daro: Unsealing an Ancient Indus City https://t.co/Z9CicNtreR via @YouTube

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

Petition to ban academics who use "oeuvre" and "nouveau" when simpler and better words exist with the same meaning.

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

Without knowing why certain articles exist in the constitution in the first place, and without having the background context of the circumstances when the laws were passed, you can not determine whether they are good or not.

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

I was going through the Universities Act of 1904 the other day, and it sounded reasonable on the paper.

But when I read Gokhale's criticism and Calcutta University Commission Report (1917-19), it became clearer that the Act of 1904 was a terribly flawed piece of law.

#history

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

What can be concluded from this?

That, philisophy of law, its context, and the (potential or real) consequences are equally important in understanding the legislation that impacts the system.

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

@IlhanNiaz Many congratulations, sir. Bring it home now!

[Ilhan Niaz @IlhanNiaz]

My latest book, New World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in the Americas, has won the 11th Best Publication Award for a book on the social sciences from the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.

The book is published by Routledge (NY) and is available in India from Manohar (New Delhi) & it will soon be out in Pakistan from the Oxford University Press.

😊

You can find out more about it here:
https://t.co/qLv6ynt67i

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

... of a European professor; while Baber mentions he received two-thirds of salary.

Shows how important it is to consult multiple sources before you are certain about anything in history.

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

Another update:

J. Lourdasamy says Jagadis Chandra Bose, the pioneer Indian physicist and biologist, returned to India in 1884, while Zaheer Baber says he returned in 1885.

Also, according to Lourdasamy, JC Bose was appointed to Presidency College Calcutta at a pay half...

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

Just had a "researcher moment"

The other day, I was reading in a book about "a member" (No NAME) of Court of Directors of EIC in London who opposed the proposal to educate the Indians on the grounds that the prior experience to do so in America has turned out badly.

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

@ZaheenQureshi Imagine if the British colonisers said the same about the leaders of the Independence Movement, most of whom were graduates of prestigious universities in the West and at home.

[Zaheen @ZaheenQureshi]

I think Universities are their to disseminate knowledge and critical thinking skills. This headline sinisterly gives the impression that the university is somewhat responsible for producing these individuals discounting their lived realities. More concerning is why these educated

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

Someone finally taught him a history lesson!

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

That would be chic!

[Ilhan Niaz @IlhanNiaz]

I am busy writing my next book, The Pursuit of Order: Understanding Humanity's Most Enduring Illusion, and am done with the introduction/overview and the first chapter (out of eight).

The book is a history of a few good ideas and many bad ones and explains how humans have struggled to conceptualize and understand order in relation to everything from the cosmos to society, economy, politics, administration, diplomacy, ecology and artificial intelligence.

It is organized as a series of essays (with enough references to make me look smarter than I am) and now that I have gotten going, I hope to finish the manuscript in about a year. This would set it up for a late-2027 or early/mid-2028 publication date.

I am starting to look for a publisher and if you are a publisher who wants to know more, or know someone in publishing who might be interested in working with me on this, then please drop me a DM or an email on [email protected]

The Pursuit of Order is geared more towards a general audience but is academically anchored.

[tehzeeb @teezeuss]

Just came to know that Ceasar Salad is not named after Julius Ceasar.

The world is the actual Brutus. It betrays you on every step, not trustworthy at all.