Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb

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Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb
Dr MZA Shakeb (cropped).jpg
Born21 October 1933
Died20 January 2021(2021-01-20) (aged 87)
London
AwardsNawab Faizullah Khan Award
Academic background
Alma materOsmania University, Aligarh Muslim University, Deccan College

Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb (M.Z.A. Shakeb) (21 October 1933 - 20 January 2021) was a historian on the Deccan, art connoisseur, Sufi Intellectual and Urdu and Persian literary critic.[1]

Early life and education[edit]

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 the Aligarh Muslim University in 1956. He completed his doctorate on Relations of Golkonda with Iran from Deccan College in 1976.[2]

Career[edit]

Shakeb together with Vasanth Kumar Bawa, 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[disambiguation needed], Amir Khusrau, Iqbal, Ghalib and Rumi.[2]

Death[edit]

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]

Awards and Recognitions[edit]

Selected Publications[edit]

  • Relations of Golkonda with Iran c.1518-1687: Diplomacy, Ideas and Commerce Ideas[7] (New Delhi: Primus Books, 2017)
  • Mughal Archives: A Descriptive Catalogue of the documents pertaining to the reign of Shah Jahan (1628-1658), Vol 1. Durbar papers and a miscellany of singular documents[15] (Andhra Pradesh: State Archives, 1977)
  • A Descriptive catalogue of the Batala collection of Mughal documents, 1527-1757 AD. (United Kingdom: British Library, 1990)[16]
  • A descriptive catalogue of Persian letters from Arcot and Baroda[17] (United Kingdom: India Office Library and Records, British Library, 1982).
  • Ghalib and Zuka, (New Delhi; Ghalib Academy, 1974)[18]
  • Ghalib on Hyderabad[19] (Hyderabad, Adami Trust, 1969)

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "Sufi intellectual Zia Shakeb will be missed in India and abroad". January 26, 2021.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Mohammed Shakeb: Preserver of Mughal Archival Documents and Reconstructor of Libraries". The Wire.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Zia Shakeb is no more; he was a renowned litterateur, historian and authority on art - NewsDeal".
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb (M.Z.A. Shakeb) (1933-2021) | SOAS University of London". www.soas.ac.uk.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "'Deccani roots truly secular' | Hyderabad News - Times of India". The Times of India.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Progressive seeker on Sufi path". March 24, 2007 – via www.thehindu.com.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Dayal, Subah. ""Introduction" to Relations of Golkonda with Iran, 1518 - 1687 by M.Z.A. Shakeb" – via www.academia.edu. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ↑ "ماہر اقبالیات و دکنیات ڈاکٹر ضیا الدین احمد شکیب کا لندن میں انتقال". January 20, 2021.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Ahmed, Mahamid (March 7, 2021). "Ziauddin Shakeb obituary". The Guardian.
  10. ↑ "Zia Shakeb is no more; he was a renowned litterateur, historian and authority on art". Retrieved 9 February 2021.
  11. ↑ "Zia Shakeb is no more; he was a renowned litterateur, historian and authority on art". January 20, 2021.
  12. ↑ "Annual report" (PDF). www.indiaculture.nic.in. 2018. Retrieved 2021-03-31.
  13. ↑ "centre for deccan studies - Maulana Azad National Urdu University". yumpu.com.
  14. ↑ "List of Fellows". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. 117 (2): 1–38. April 30, 1985. doi:10.1017/S0035869X00139024 – via Cambridge University Press.
  15. ↑ "Mughal archives: a descriptive catalogue of the documents pertaining to the reign of Shah Jahan, 1628-1658". State Archives, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh. February 9, 1977 – via Hathi Trust.
  16. ↑ "A descriptive catalogue of the Batala collection of Mughal documents, 1527-1757 AD". British Library. February 10, 1990 – via University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Catalog.
  17. ↑ "Notes: A descriptive catalogue of Persian letters from Arcot and Baroda". library.soas.ac.uk.
  18. ↑ "Ghalib Aur Zuka by Ziyauddin Ahmad Shakeb". Rekhta.
  19. ↑ "Ghalib Aur Hyderabad". February 9, 1969 – via Internet Archive.

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