Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb | |
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Born | 21 October 1933 |
Died | 20 January 2021
London, England | (aged 87)
Awards | Nawab Faizullah Khan Award |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Osmania University, Aligarh Muslim University, Deccan College |
Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb (M.Z.A. Shakeb) (21 October 1933 – 20 January 2021) was a historian of the Deccan, art connoisseur, Sufi Intellectual, and Urdu and Persian literary critic. [1]
Born on 21 October 1933, Shakeb grew up in Hyderabad and Aurangabad. He received a BA in Political Science from the Osmania University, and an MA from Aligarh Muslim University in 1956. He completed his doctorate in Relations of Golkonda with Iran from Deccan College in 1976. [2]
Together with Vasanth Kumar Bawa, Shakeb set up the first-ever Hyderabad Urban Development Authority which is now referred to as Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority. [3] In 1962, he was appointed an archivist at the State Archives of Andhra Pradesh in Hyderabad. [3] Whilst here he created the Mughal Record Room. His publications include Mughal Archives Vol I: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Documents Pertaining to the Reign of Shah Jahan, in 1977 which remains critical reading for those seeking to learn how to read administrative documents in Indo-Persian. [4] He went on to write many publications for The British Library, State Archives Andhra Pradesh, and other repositories, universities, and auction houses. [2]
From 1980 to 1987, Shakeb taught Indian history and the history of Indo-Islamic art and culture in the Department of Indology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. [5] [6] He, later on, worked as a consultant for Christie's in their department of Islamic and Indian Art as their leading expert on Persian and Arabic manuscripts for 30 years. [5] [3] [6]
He also continued to work on Indo-Persian manuscripts and Mughal documents and catalogued such manuscripts in the British Library, such as the Batala Collection of Mughal Documents 1527-1757 in 1990. [4] [2] Throughout this time he supervised many doctoral researchers in the fields of Mughal history, Deccan studies and Urdu and Persian literature. [7] [2]
Shakeb was also the Director of Urdu teachers training at Middlesex University up until 1998. [4]
He also played a key role in setting up the Haroon Khan Sherwani Center for Deccan Studies at Maulana Azad National Urdu University and had been a member of the center's first advisory board. He was considered a pioneer, having helped lay the foundations of Deccan Studies. [8] [9]
Shakeb was an authority on various poets from the Indian subcontinent and Persia, writing books and organising and speaking at conferences on Bedil, Amir Khusrau, Iqbal, Ghalib, and Rumi. [2]
Shakeb died in London on 20 January 2021, aged 87. [10] He is survived by his wife, Farhat Ahmed, two daughters, a son, and nine grandchildren. [2] [11] [9]
Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb | |
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Born | 21 October 1933 |
Died | 20 January 2021
London, England | (aged 87)
Awards | Nawab Faizullah Khan Award |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Osmania University, Aligarh Muslim University, Deccan College |
Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb (M.Z.A. Shakeb) (21 October 1933 – 20 January 2021) was a historian of the Deccan, art connoisseur, Sufi Intellectual, and Urdu and Persian literary critic. [1]
Born on 21 October 1933, Shakeb grew up in Hyderabad and Aurangabad. He received a BA in Political Science from the Osmania University, and an MA from Aligarh Muslim University in 1956. He completed his doctorate in Relations of Golkonda with Iran from Deccan College in 1976. [2]
Together with Vasanth Kumar Bawa, Shakeb set up the first-ever Hyderabad Urban Development Authority which is now referred to as Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority. [3] In 1962, he was appointed an archivist at the State Archives of Andhra Pradesh in Hyderabad. [3] Whilst here he created the Mughal Record Room. His publications include Mughal Archives Vol I: A Descriptive Catalogue of the Documents Pertaining to the Reign of Shah Jahan, in 1977 which remains critical reading for those seeking to learn how to read administrative documents in Indo-Persian. [4] He went on to write many publications for The British Library, State Archives Andhra Pradesh, and other repositories, universities, and auction houses. [2]
From 1980 to 1987, Shakeb taught Indian history and the history of Indo-Islamic art and culture in the Department of Indology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. [5] [6] He, later on, worked as a consultant for Christie's in their department of Islamic and Indian Art as their leading expert on Persian and Arabic manuscripts for 30 years. [5] [3] [6]
He also continued to work on Indo-Persian manuscripts and Mughal documents and catalogued such manuscripts in the British Library, such as the Batala Collection of Mughal Documents 1527-1757 in 1990. [4] [2] Throughout this time he supervised many doctoral researchers in the fields of Mughal history, Deccan studies and Urdu and Persian literature. [7] [2]
Shakeb was also the Director of Urdu teachers training at Middlesex University up until 1998. [4]
He also played a key role in setting up the Haroon Khan Sherwani Center for Deccan Studies at Maulana Azad National Urdu University and had been a member of the center's first advisory board. He was considered a pioneer, having helped lay the foundations of Deccan Studies. [8] [9]
Shakeb was an authority on various poets from the Indian subcontinent and Persia, writing books and organising and speaking at conferences on Bedil, Amir Khusrau, Iqbal, Ghalib, and Rumi. [2]
Shakeb died in London on 20 January 2021, aged 87. [10] He is survived by his wife, Farhat Ahmed, two daughters, a son, and nine grandchildren. [2] [11] [9]