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Tonoy Rahman

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Tonoy Rahman is a textile engineer, Shia theologist, and scholar of Persian mystical literature from Dhaka, Bangladesh. He has a complete mastery of Urdu, Persian, and Arabic. He reads Hafez, Rumi, Saadi, Khayyam, and Attar in their original Persian.

His scholarly monograph The Influence of Shi'ism in Sufi Literature/ সুফি সাহিত্যে শিয়া প্রভাব (Bengali, 2025) examines how Shia theology shaped Persian mysticism from the 8th to 14th centuries.

He has recently published his debut literary fantasy novel, THE EVER-CHANGING SANDS, set in 11th-century Islamic Persia. The novel explores themes of resistance, theodicy, and moral complexity—for readers who love Guy Gavriel Kay and S.A. Chakraborty.

He lives in Dhaka with his family and writes by night w
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The Ever-Changing Sands

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সুফি সাহিত্যে শিয়া প্রভাব

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The Canine Witness: Loyalty, Theodicy, and the Ethics of Refusal (A Literary Analysis of the Dog in The Ever-Changing Sands)

Every now and then, a reader asks me about the dog in The Ever-Changing Sands. Why is he there? What does he represent? Is he just a sentimental device to tug at the heartstrings? The short answer is no. From my perspective as the author, the dog is not merely a plot device or a furry sidekick. He is a deliberate, quiet, four-legged theological argument; a statement about what it means to bear wit Read more of this blog post »
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The long road to vengeance, and the longer road back.

I first read this book when I was seventeen. It took me three weeks. I read it again in my twenties, and it took me two. I read it again last year, and it took me one. But the third time, I underst
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The woman who read too many novels.

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The exile's compass, the slave's revenge.

I have followed Kay through the Sarantine Empire, across the plains of Al-Rassan, and into the courts of Kitai. Each time, I have emerged feeling as though I had lived a second life. All the Seas of the World
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“Truth's greatest testimony is not victory, it's refusal. Refusal to bow before falsehood.”
Tonoy Rahman, The Ever-Changing Sands

“Truth's greatest testimony is not victory, it's refusal. Refusal to bow before falsehood.”
Tonoy Rahman, The Ever-Changing Sands

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