Islamic civilization in South Asia : a history of Muslim power and presence in the Indian subcontinent / / Burjor Avari.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Avari, Burjor.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xviii, 317 p., [11] p. of plates :; ill., maps.

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The era of Arab predominance
• 3. Turkish power and Persian culture in the age of transition
• 4. The Delhi Sultanate at its zenith
• 5. New centres of Muslim power and culture
• 6. The Mughal ascendancy: Akbar and his successors
• 7. The age of Mughal disintegration
• 8. Muslims under the East India Company
• 9. Stirrings of a Muslim modernity under the Raj
• 10. Unity or separatism? Muslim dilemma at the end of the Raj
• 11. Epilogue: New challenges in a fractured subcontinent.