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Mohammed Shakeb: Preserver of Mughal Archival Documents and Reconstructor of Libraries A tribute to a polymath historian who recently passed away. Dr Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb at the Qutb Shahi tombs in Hyderabad, October 2013. Photo: Author provided History10/Feb/2021 I first met Dr Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb in the summer of 2011, as a naïve PhD student whoâd arrived in Hyderabad from Los Angeles wanting to âread Shah Jahanâs documentsâ. He asked me the very standard question asked of research students in India, âWhat is your topic?â I only had a rather incoherent answer to give to Shakeb, the man who had, among other things, created the Mughal Record Room, in what is today known as the Telangana State Archives. Located in a nondescript building at the periphery of the Osmania University campus in the dusty precinct of Tarnaka, this institution has undergone numerous transformations over the course of a half-century of its exi ....
Remembering Dr Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb beyond the literary world By News Desk| Published: 22nd January 2021 9:21 pm IST Syed Hurairah He could explain Iblis’ (Satan) mocking of Jibreel (Archangel Gabriel) in the last misra (line) of Iqbal’s ‘Jibreel-o-Iblees’ in the most gleeful fashion. There always was a faint smile on his face as he read aloud how Jibreel asked his old colleague or humdum-e-daireena (that is Satan)of his general condition, of how there is a lesson in defiance, that one could learn about the faith, and remain a steadfast believer. This was his wisdom. This is what Dr Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb did. ....