Shahzad Bashir Books Jun 2026

Bashir has published extensively on the malfūzāt (recorded conversations) genre. He argues that these texts are not transparent records of oral teachings but carefully crafted literary artifacts that construct a saint’s authority retroactively.

Before Sufi Bodies , Bashir established his expertise with this deep dive into the life of Fazlallah Astarabadi and the Hurufi movement. This is a specialized text that explores a fascinating, if somewhat obscure, mystical movement in medieval Iran that believed divine secrets were embedded in the letters of the alphabet. shahzad bashir books

its argument through a hyperlinked structure rather than just stating it. Geschichtstheorie am Werk 2. The Body as a Bridge: Sufi Corporeality in Medieval Iran Bashir has published extensively on the malfūzāt (recorded

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  • Automating Wordpress Installation Through Ansible !

    August 05, 2019

    August 5, 2019

    This article will cover the process of automating WordPress installation on multiple Ubuntu (Debian) nodes/servers using ansible.

    I would like you to first go through my previous post to get a good idea of "How Ansible works" and the problems you may face while setting up a basic ansible structure.


  • The Ansible progress so far!

    August 03, 2019

    August 2, 2019

    [Note: This post will cover the work progress from last 2 days, i.e. August 1st and 2nd.]

    I am learning ansible now. It was not a really smooth passage to the point where I am right now in ansible. But today, with literally lots of efforts, I finally managed to run some first few ansible-playbooks on... -->


  • Cowsay: A loopy day @ @

    August 01, 2019

    July 31, 2019

    Umm, I don't know if you understand anything out of the title or not ( or you already might be knowing as well). But, it came to my rescue today and this is the only satisfying thing that has happened to me, for the day. 😛

    cowsay

  • Containerisation using Docker !

    July 30, 2019

    July 30, 2019

    Before actually moving onto the actual topic of the blog, I will summarize first, what all other things I did today, along with learning "Docker Containerisation".

    1. I started learning Ansible (though a terrible start).
    2. Learnt "What is Docker" and how to build custom docker images. Meanwhile created multiple docker containers based on these... -->

    3. "Ops School" Progress!

      July 29, 2019
      • Introduction
        • Goals and Focus
        • Syllabus layout
      • Contributions
        • How we’ll organize work
        • How to contribute
        • Rewards for contributions
        • Ops School Videos
        • How to write sections
        • Overwriting existing content
        • Credits
      • Guidelines
      • Careers in Operations
        • Deciding a career path
        • Generalized career paths
        • Specialized career paths
        • How to become an operations engineer
      • Sysadmin 101
        • What is Systems Administration?
        • What is Development?
        • Contrasting Development and Operations
        • ... -->
        • A very quick guide for mutt installation!

          July 29, 2019

          July 30, 2019

          From past several days, I am constantly hearing folks from #dgplug, talking about their email management tactics, using several different email clients/tools. And Kushal's idea of keeping his inbox in a zero state, pulled my maximum attention.

          So, now, here I am taking my very first step towards the same. :D