The Millennial Sovereign : : Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam / / A. Azfar Moin.
At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sacred being on earth. The holiest of all saints and above the distinctions of religion, he styled himself as the messiah reborn. Yet the Mughal emperor was n...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2012 |
Language: | English |
Series: | South Asia Across the Disciplines
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) |
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