Sublime

But while Zaghlul and his nationalist colleagues accepted the Salafiyyah’s vision of “Islam as civilization,” they rejected the argument that imperialism could be defeated through religious solidarity. One need only regard the petty squabbles of the Ulama to recognize the futility of the Pan-Islamist project, they argued. Rather, the nationalists s

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Hatshepsut built a grand temple at Deir el-Bahri, complete with wonderful bas-reliefs which illustrate and document one of her greatest achievements, a trading voyage to Punt, a country on the African coast below the Red Sea. Intricately captioned, the carved vignettes detail not just what the people said (“Watch your step!” is carved over the stev

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By the middle of the 18th Century, the Carnatic region, approximately today’s Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala and southern Andhra Pradesh, came under the rule of Nizam-ul-Mulk of Hyderabad. During the early period of his early reign he was loyal to Aurangzeb, but following the latter’s death in 1707, he broke away and ruled the Carnatic region as an

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