Shii News – Passing of Stephen Blake

Steve authored such works as
Astronomy and astrology in the Islamic world (2016)
Time in early modern Islam : calendar, ceremony, and chronology in the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires (2013)
Half the world : the social architecture of Safavid Isfahan, 1590-1722 (1999)
Shahjahanabad : the sovereign city in Mughal India, 1639- 1739 (1993)

and, as your moderator, was an alumnus of Dartmouth College.