Jamal Mian The Life of Maulana Jamaluddin Abdul Wahab of Farangi Mahall, 1919–2012 by Francis Robinson. This book relates the life of Jamal Mian Farangi Mahalli, a highly respected scion of Lucknow’s scholarly culture and a major leader of the Pakistan Movement. Based on the archives left by Jamal Mian, it explores his life as…
Paper Jewels Postcards from the Raj by Omar Khan, a 518 Vintage Postcard Tour of India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, is co-published by Mapin Publishing and the Alkazi Collection of Photography (August 2018). Postcards were to people in 1900 what the Internet was to the world in 2000. Postcards were the world’s first mass transfusion of…
*** N.B. This is a joint event with the RSAA and will take place at the Brunei Gallery at SOAS *** Join us for the launch of Dr. Christoph Baumer's The History of Central Asia: The Age of Decline and Revival. For more than a hundred years, Central Asia was the heartland of the mightiest…
LOST MAPS OF THE CALIPHS Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo by Yossef Rapoport and Emilie Savage-Smith About a millennium ago, an unknown author in Cairo completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth…
The Royal Asiatic Society will host a book launch of Talat Ahmed's new critical biography Mohandas Gandhi: Experiments in Civil Disobedience, which highlights the contradictions in Gandhi's non-violent philosophy. Dr Ahmed will discuss the book with Professor David Arnold followed by a question and answer session, with copies of the book available for purchase after…
Anand Panyarachun and the Making of Modern Thailand The long career of Anand Panyarachun, Thailand's former prime minister and elder statesman, is one of distinguished public service that sweeps across diplomacy, business, politics, social reform, and philanthropy; he is widely regarded as a progressive figure dedicated to the betterment of his compatriots, improving global understanding,…
Mrs Tsira Kemularia in partnership with the Embassy of Georgia to the United Kingdom and the Royal Asiatic Society presents book Launch: The Living Alphabet The book presents a unique Georgian manuscript, Sulkhan- Saba Orbeliani’s Georgian dictionary, which was rewritten at the end of 18th Century by a famous calligrapher Petre Laradze. The original…
From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire and Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul Discussion and Book Launch On Friday June 28th The Royal Asiatic Society will host a joint book launch of Chanchal B. Dadlani's From Stone to Paper: Architecture as History in the Late Mughal Empire…
Book Launch: Silk, Syrup and Shade: 4000 years of Mulberry Migrations