Daniel Jacobius Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 5531297 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Jacobius Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel Jacobius |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Clara University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-2414-7533 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
More Beneficial than Karl Marx
In the early 1940s, the Deoband-trained scholar and anti-colonial activist ʿUbaidullāh Sindhī (d. 1944) produced an innovative Urdu-language tażkirah (commemorative anthology) entitled Shāh Valīullāh aur Un kī Siyāsī Taḥrīk (Shāh Valīullāh and his Political Movement) as part of his wider attempt to revivify the revolutionary lineage of Shāh Valīullāh of Delhi (d. 1762). While acknowledging its influence, modern historians have tended to critique …
Toward the Formation of a Waliullahi Public in Eighteenth-Century India
Shah Waliullah of Delhi, the famous eighteenth-century Naqshbandi, is widely recognized as a major figure in the emergence of Islamic reformist discourse in South Asia, but we still have little sense of the first audiences who engaged with his ideas. This article seeks to further our understanding of the crystallization of this reform-oriented Waliullahi public by recreating the fragmentary biography of his lifelong companion and disciple Nurulla…
Sufis and Sultans in Eighteenth-Century Delhi
While Shāh Walī Allāh’s political letters have been the subject of much scholarly discussion, they are still deeply misunderstood. These misunderstandings are due, primarily, to erroneous attributions of recipients, misidentified individuals in the letters, and the failure to read these “political letters” alongside Walī Allāh’s broader epistolographic corpus, contemporary biographical texts and political chronicles of the period. This article ar…
Letter writing as the mingling of souls
Historians of Islamicate intellectual practices in pre-colonial South Asia have long argued that authoritative knowledge was located in persons rather than books, and that religious texts were thus typically transmitted in the context of face-to-face meetings between teacher and student. While it has been noted that some early modern Sufi networks engaged in the remote transmission of authoritative knowledge by means of letters, with reduced emph…
Toward the Formation of a Waliullahi Public in Eighteenth-Century India
Shah Waliullah of Delhi, the famous eighteenth-century Naqshbandi, is widely recognized as a major figure in the emergence of Islamic reformist discourse in South Asia, but we still have little sense of the first audiences who engaged with his ideas. This article seeks to further our understanding of the crystallization of this reform-oriented Waliullahi public by recreating the fragmentary biography of his lifelong companion and disciple Nurulla…
Letter writing as the mingling of souls
Historians of Islamicate intellectual practices in pre-colonial South Asia have long argued that authoritative knowledge was located in persons rather than books, and that religious texts were thus typically transmitted in the context of face-to-face meetings between teacher and student. While it has been noted that some early modern Sufi networks engaged in the remote transmission of authoritative knowledge by means of letters, with reduced emph…
Sufis and Sultans in Eighteenth-Century Delhi
While Shāh Walī Allāh’s political letters have been the subject of much scholarly discussion, they are still deeply misunderstood. These misunderstandings are due, primarily, to erroneous attributions of recipients, misidentified individuals in the letters, and the failure to read these “political letters” alongside Walī Allāh’s broader epistolographic corpus, contemporary biographical texts and political chronicles of the period. This article ar…
More Beneficial than Karl Marx
In the early 1940s, the Deoband-trained scholar and anti-colonial activist ʿUbaidullāh Sindhī (d. 1944) produced an innovative Urdu-language tażkirah (commemorative anthology) entitled Shāh Valīullāh aur Un kī Siyāsī Taḥrīk (Shāh Valīullāh and his Political Movement) as part of his wider attempt to revivify the revolutionary lineage of Shāh Valīullāh of Delhi (d. 1762). While acknowledging its influence, modern historians have tended to critique …
Toward the Formation of a Waliullahi Public in Eighteenth-Century India
Shah Waliullah of Delhi, the famous eighteenth-century Naqshbandi, is widely recognized as a major figure in the emergence of Islamic reformist discourse in South Asia, but we still have little sense of the first audiences who engaged with his ideas. This article seeks to further our understanding of the crystallization of this reform-oriented Waliullahi public by recreating the fragmentary biography of his lifelong companion and disciple Nurulla…
Islamic Studies and History (4 works) · Asian Studies and History (3 works) · History (3 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Literature (2 works)