Al-Hind : : Volume IV: Age of the Great Mughals, 16th-17th Centuries. Part One: Afghans and Mughals in the Struggle.

Al-Hind : : Volume IV: Age of the Great Mughals, 16th-17th Centuries. Part One: Afghans and Mughals in the Struggle.

The first part of the long-awaited fourth volume of André Wink's monumental Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World introduces a new perspective on the rise of the dynasty of the Great Mughals and the transition of the Indo-Islamic world from the medieval to the early modern centuries.

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Wink, André.
Place / Publishing House:Boston : : BRILL,, 2024.
©2024.
Year of Publication:2024
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (367 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations
  • Maps
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 On the Road of Failure: the Afghans in Hind
  • 1 The Pastoral-Nomadic Economy of Afghanistan and Kabul
  • 2 Afghan Tribal Society
  • 3 The Failure of the Afghan Empire
  • 3.1 The Lodi Sultanate
  • 3.2 Nomadic Expansion in Qandahar
  • 3.3 The Afghan Conquest of the Kabul River Basin and Peshawar
  • 3.4 The Sur Empire of the Sixteenth Century
  • 4 Waiting for the Millennium
  • 5 Durrani Imperialism
  • 6 The Origins of Modern Afghanistan
  • Chapter 2 From the Mongols to the Great Mughals
  • 1 Origins of the Mughal Dynasty
  • 1.1 From Chingiz Khan to Timur
  • 2 The Mughal Dynasty from Babur to Alamgir
  • 2.1 Babur
  • 2.2 Humayun
  • 2.3 Akbar
  • 2.4 Jahangir
  • 2.5 Shah Jahan
  • 2.6 Alamgir
  • 3 Conclusion: the Long Shadow of Chingiz Khan
  • Chapter 3 The Empire of the Great Mughals and Its Indian Foundations
  • 1 A Farewell to Horses?
  • 2 The Culture of Chivalry
  • 3 'The Greatest and Most Powerful Empire in the World'
  • 4 The Sharers of the Realm
  • Chapter 4 Religion, Society and Politics in Mughal India
  • 1 Christianity
  • 2 Conflicting Views of Mughal Imperial Religion and Attitudes towards Religion
  • 3 Religious Reform
  • 4 Iconoclasm
  • 5 Monotheism vs. Paganism
  • 6 Saints of the Mughals
  • 7 Sunni and Shiʿa
  • 8 Imperial Law?
  • 9 Legal and Political Arenas
  • 10 A Disciplinary Revolution
  • 11 Conversion and Devotional Movements
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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