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Ziauddin Shakeb loved classical Indian poetry and the Urdu language, contributing to BBC Urdu for many years Ziauddin Shakeb loved classical Indian poetry and the Urdu language, contributing to BBC Urdu for many years MahamidAhmed Sun 7 Mar 2021 12.48 EST Last modified on Sun 7 Mar 2021 12.51 EST My grandfather Ziauddin Shakeb, who has died aged 87 of pulmonary oedema, was a historian of Indo-Persian relations and a world-renowned expert on Persian and Arabic manuscripts, working as a consultant at Christie’s auction house in London for 30 years. He was born in India and moved to the UK in ...

Mohammed Shakeb: Preserver of Mughal Archival Documents and Reconstructor of Libraries A tribute to a polymath historian who recently passed away. Dr Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb at the Qutb Shahi tombs in Hyderabad, October 2013. Photo: Author provided History10/Feb/2021 I first met Dr Mohammed Ziauddin Ahmed Shakeb in the summer of 2011, as a naïve PhD student who’d arrived in Hyderabad from Los Angeles wanting to “read Shah Jahan’s documents”. He asked me the very standard question asked of research students in India, “What is your topic?” I only had a rather inco...