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Eid Mubarak to everyone.
كل عام وأنت بخير
#Eid #Eid ulFitr2024
Muzzammil KhanⓂ️ مزمل خان
Jamal Jafri
Tathagata Neogi (He/Him/Dr)
Hemant
Sharad Mohan شرد ਸ਼ਰਦ शरद শরদ

#EidAlFitr #EidMubarak to all those celebrating today with this unique c1800 'Mechanical Quran' into which all the 114 chapters of the #Quran fit onto the narrow surface of the scroll.

Gifted by the Nawab of the Carnatic to King George IV & now at Royal Collection Trust

Rana Safvi رعنا राना Yusuf A Ahmad Ansari یوسف انصاری

सजी है ये मुस्तफ़ा की महफ़िल फ़रिश्ते राहें सजा रहे हैं,
दरूद पढ़ लो , दरूद पढ़ लो, हुज़ूर तशरीफ़ ला रहे हैं.
#JummaTulWida
Tawarikh Khwani تواریخ خوانی Munaf Ali 🇮🇳 Murtuza Mohammad Ali Sahil Md Rahematulla Adil Akhtar 💫Nikki💫 Rida Abbas Z𝚊𝖎η𝕒b__786 Shamsida Tayab FatimaSalari Kauser Fatma

Masjid Nabawi
Ramadan nights twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Some Serene views from Masjid Nabawi today at Maghrib prayers
#Ramadan #Ramzan #MasjidNabawi

Hunting on a Horseback with a Falcon is Iraj, the 7th Shah of Pishdadian Dynasty as per Avestan legends & on whom #Iran is so named and made popular by Poet Ferdowsi in his 11th century epic #Shahnameh

This c1775 CE #Mughal painting was sold by Bonhams on March 20, 2024.

ای عاشقان ای عاشقان هنگام کوچ است از جهان
در گوش جانم می رسد طبل رحیل از آسمان
Beautiful Ghazal of Jalaluddin Rumi playing in background in this snippet of historic series titled
'Jalaluddin Khwarzim Shah'
#historical #Heritage #Poems #Persian #Poetry #Rumi #Sufism #Mongols

Crucifixion of #JesusChrist

c1590 CE painting attributed to Kesu Das, an important artist in the Imperial atelier of the #Mughal Emperor #Akbar at #Agra
This painting is now in the British Museum collection

#GoodFriday

William Dalrymple Art Historian* 🇮🇳 ranjona banerji 🇮🇳 Viji Venkatesh 🇮🇳 وجی وینکٹیش

A miniature leaf-shaped mushaf from the 16th century, copied in Agra in Mughal India. #magnificentmushaf
[Sotheby's Arts of the Islamic World, 24th April 2024, lot 35]

#OnThisDay - on 29th March 1857, at #Barrackpore , Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Bengal Native Infantry, fired the first shots of what would later be considered the beginning of the #GreatRevolt of 1857 or, the First War of #Indian Independence. Pandey would be captured and then…

'There is a complete dehumanization for part of me and complete humanization for the other part of me.'

Zoya Miari is a Palestinian Ukrainian who has been made a refugee twice. She tells us about the double standard she's experiencing now that both of her homelands are occupied.

While reading Zauq, came across this she’r in which he uses بأی ذنب قتلتنی—a modified verse from Quran.
-The original verse means, “For what sin was she killed?”, referring to the practice of female feticide common among pre Islamic Arabia, which Quran outlawed.
- Fascinating…

Tawarikh Khwani تواریخ خوانی Muzzammil KhanⓂ️ مزمل خان William Dalrymple Dr. Durrani Barmazid Khalid B.Umar Also will try to test deeper Ghilzai Y-DNA. They are for now >80% R1a but interesting are the actual subclades and relation of the R1a clades to other Pashtuns and non-Pashtuns.

Very informative video on genetic history of Pakhtuns.

youtu.be/svDL6w1SjiI?si…
Pashtun Chronicles: tracing ancestral roots via Y Haplogroup insights
#Genetics #Pashtuns

From #arattupuzhapooram #Kerala
#Elephants #elephant
Check how a Temple elephant gets agitated and charges at another! #ElephantAttack
#FileVideo
ranjona banerji 🇮🇳 Sharad Mohan شرد ਸ਼ਰਦ शरद শরদ Indian Art India Awakened Tawarikh Khwani تواریخ خوانی William Dalrymple

In 1947 as new nations were being carved out on the map, a crimson elixir from Delhi was also partitioned. However, instead of diminishing its popularity, it gained fame on both sides of the border. This is the story of Rooh Afza. 1/15