Fashion is often painted as a frivolous endeavor, an exercise in superficial consumerism, promoting commercialism and conformity. For others, however, fashion constitutes a meaningful form of self-expression...

Abu’l-Fazl, the author of the History of Akbar, is known to anyone with an interest in Mughal India. Along with his brother Faizi, Abu’l-Fazl made a lifelong career for himself in imperial Mughal service, while their father Shaykh Mubarak ran a madrasa in Agra. They represented a relatively small but growing number of Indian Muslims who had gained mastery in Persian to prepare them for various posts in this fast-growing empire of early modern India…

Historically, the category of “Muslim superheroes” has been a sparsely populated one. After 9/11, the representation of Muslims kicked into overdrive. But not all the attention has been negative…