Sohaib Baig
Biographic Data
| ID | 5443342 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sohaib Baig |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sohaib |
| FAMILY NAME | Baig |
| SIGNATURE | BAIG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Association of Research Libraries |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8077-1360 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Lamp of Hind” in Cairo
This article explores scholarly exchange across the Arabian Sea in the fourteenth century with respect to Islamic law. It connects legal contexts from the Delhi Sultanate to the Cairo Sultanate and shows how the Sunni legal schools (madhhabs) and the recently emergent system of legal pluralism shaped transoceanic exchanges of scholarship. In particular, this article focuses on the career of Sirāj al-Dīn al-Hindī (d. 773/1372), an Indian scholar w…
Printing a Transregional Ṭarīqa
This article analyzes the prominence of print in the Sufi ṭarīqa of Haji Imdadullah Muhajir Makki (d. 1899), a pre-eminent Indian Chishti-Sabri shaykh who settled in the Ottoman Hijaz after escaping North India in the aftermath of the 1857 mutiny. It explores the transregional contexts of the publication of Haji Imdadullah’s works, in the long journey of his manuscripts from Mecca to their lithographic printing in North India and their distributi…
Editing and Printing the Arabic Book
In the first decades of the nineteenth century, British Calcutta stood as one of the most important cities in the world for the editing, printing, and selling of Arabic books. Before the famous Bulaq Press in Cairo was established in 1820, from 1801–19, European Orientalists and Indian munshi s (scribes and clerks) and maulvi s (Arabic, mawlana s), alongside one Yemeni scholar, had already printed 22 Arabic titles in movable type—many for the fir…
Arabic and Sindhi manuscript collections in Sindh, Pakistan
This article presents an introduction to an array of historical sources from Sindh (in modern‐day Pakistan) in the Arabic and Sindhi languages. It highlights the sizeable number of Arabic manuscripts in Sindhi institutions and discusses some of the larger historical forces that shaped their collection in the colonial and pre‐colonial periods. In addition, it reflects on the significance these sources may hold for the field of Indian Ocean history…
SherAli Tareen (2020), Defending Muhammad in Modernity
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Arabic and Sindhi manuscript collections in Sindh, Pakistan
This article presents an introduction to an array of historical sources from Sindh (in modern‐day Pakistan) in the Arabic and Sindhi languages. It highlights the sizeable number of Arabic manuscripts in Sindhi institutions and discusses some of the larger historical forces that shaped their collection in the colonial and pre‐colonial periods. In addition, it reflects on the significance these sources may hold for the field of Indian Ocean history…
SherAli Tareen (2020), Defending Muhammad in Modernity
Printing a Transregional Ṭarīqa
This article analyzes the prominence of print in the Sufi ṭarīqa of Haji Imdadullah Muhajir Makki (d. 1899), a pre-eminent Indian Chishti-Sabri shaykh who settled in the Ottoman Hijaz after escaping North India in the aftermath of the 1857 mutiny. It explores the transregional contexts of the publication of Haji Imdadullah’s works, in the long journey of his manuscripts from Mecca to their lithographic printing in North India and their distributi…
Editing and Printing the Arabic Book
In the first decades of the nineteenth century, British Calcutta stood as one of the most important cities in the world for the editing, printing, and selling of Arabic books. Before the famous Bulaq Press in Cairo was established in 1820, from 1801–19, European Orientalists and Indian munshi s (scribes and clerks) and maulvi s (Arabic, mawlana s), alongside one Yemeni scholar, had already printed 22 Arabic titles in movable type—many for the fir…
“Lamp of Hind” in Cairo
This article explores scholarly exchange across the Arabian Sea in the fourteenth century with respect to Islamic law. It connects legal contexts from the Delhi Sultanate to the Cairo Sultanate and shows how the Sunni legal schools (madhhabs) and the recently emergent system of legal pluralism shaped transoceanic exchanges of scholarship. In particular, this article focuses on the career of Sirāj al-Dīn al-Hindī (d. 773/1372), an Indian scholar w…
Ancient history (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works) · History (3 works) · Islamic Studies and History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Arabic (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Classics (2 works) · History (2 works)