Al-Hind, Volume 2 Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries
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This is the second of a projected series of five volumes dealing with the expansion of Islam in al-Hind, or South and Southeast Asia. While the previous volume covered the 7th-11th centuries, this new volume deals principally with the Islamic conquest of the 11th-13th centuries.
The book also provides an analysis of the newly emerging organizational forms of the Indo-Islamic state in these centuries, migration patterns which developed between the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia, maritime developments in the Indian Ocean, and religious change.
The comparative and world-historical perspective which is advanced here on the dynamic interaction between nomadic and agricultural societies should make it of interest to all historians concerned with Asia in this period.
The book also provides an analysis of the newly emerging organizational forms of the Indo-Islamic state in these centuries, migration patterns which developed between the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia, maritime developments in the Indian Ocean, and religious change.
The comparative and world-historical perspective which is advanced here on the dynamic interaction between nomadic and agricultural societies should make it of interest to all historians concerned with Asia in this period.
André Wink, Ph.D., Leiden (1984) is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of Land and Sovereignty in India (1986) and Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volume I, Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7th-11th centuries (1990), as well as numerous articles.
'...an splendid (and much needed) project which is setting Indian history within a global context and revolutionizing our view of the Indo-Islamic world.
Peter Jackson, Royal Asiatic Society, 1998.
Reviews from Vol.1:
'Wink's innovative approach is extremely valuable for its successful integration of the history of India into a wider political, economic, and cultural context, thereby challenging the parochialism that has been the hallmark of Indian studies until recent times...The range of sources used by Wink is most impressive.'
F. Ahmad, Choice, 1991.
'...gut dokumentiert und mit einem ausgezeichneten Literaturverzeichnis versehen.'
Burchard Brentjes, Deutsche Literaturzeitung, 1992.
'...donne des pays bordant le nord de l'océan Indien une image nouvelle et dynamique.'
Monique Kervran, Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, 8.
'Neither Islamicist nor Indologist can ignore this pivotal study.'
Catherine Asher, MESA Bulletin, 1991.
'Wink has resolved and closed many historical gaps in Asian history…'
Peter Burns, Australian Library Review, 1992.
'...the book fills a gap in the history of North-Western and Peninsular India…'
Mohammad Saber Khan, Muslim World, 1992.
'...promises to be a classic on the Islamic encounter with the lands bordering the Indian Ocean...'
Richard M. Eaton, The Journal of Asian Studies, 1994.
'...a fascinating and convincing new approach to the question...It can broaden the mind and the horizon of the so-called specialists who are too specialized to realize the global, or in this case the Eurasian historical and economic context of their meticulous studies.'
Stephan Conermann, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 1993.
'In many areas his comparative almost global, approach raises new questions, and brings new insights.'
M.N. Pearson, South Asia, 1992.
'...the volume offers many new interpretations that are important and provocative. Above all, Wink correctly sees the formation of the Indo-Islamic world as a world-historical process that can be understood only within the framework of Afro-Eurasian history.'
Richard M. Eaton, The International History Review, 1998.
'This is a book with a Gibbonian sweep, a work of deep learning, leisured pace, and sound judgement. There are marvelous felicities ot be found whenever Wink digresses along paths which he finds intellectually stimulating and potentially fruitful.'
Gaving R.G. Hambly, The Journal of Asian Studies, 1999.
Peter Jackson, Royal Asiatic Society, 1998.
Reviews from Vol.1:
'Wink's innovative approach is extremely valuable for its successful integration of the history of India into a wider political, economic, and cultural context, thereby challenging the parochialism that has been the hallmark of Indian studies until recent times...The range of sources used by Wink is most impressive.'
F. Ahmad, Choice, 1991.
'...gut dokumentiert und mit einem ausgezeichneten Literaturverzeichnis versehen.'
Burchard Brentjes, Deutsche Literaturzeitung, 1992.
'...donne des pays bordant le nord de l'océan Indien une image nouvelle et dynamique.'
Monique Kervran, Bulletin critique des annales islamologiques, 8.
'Neither Islamicist nor Indologist can ignore this pivotal study.'
Catherine Asher, MESA Bulletin, 1991.
'Wink has resolved and closed many historical gaps in Asian history…'
Peter Burns, Australian Library Review, 1992.
'...the book fills a gap in the history of North-Western and Peninsular India…'
Mohammad Saber Khan, Muslim World, 1992.
'...promises to be a classic on the Islamic encounter with the lands bordering the Indian Ocean...'
Richard M. Eaton, The Journal of Asian Studies, 1994.
'...a fascinating and convincing new approach to the question...It can broaden the mind and the horizon of the so-called specialists who are too specialized to realize the global, or in this case the Eurasian historical and economic context of their meticulous studies.'
Stephan Conermann, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 1993.
'In many areas his comparative almost global, approach raises new questions, and brings new insights.'
M.N. Pearson, South Asia, 1992.
'...the volume offers many new interpretations that are important and provocative. Above all, Wink correctly sees the formation of the Indo-Islamic world as a world-historical process that can be understood only within the framework of Afro-Eurasian history.'
Richard M. Eaton, The International History Review, 1998.
'This is a book with a Gibbonian sweep, a work of deep learning, leisured pace, and sound judgement. There are marvelous felicities ot be found whenever Wink digresses along paths which he finds intellectually stimulating and potentially fruitful.'
Gaving R.G. Hambly, The Journal of Asian Studies, 1999.
This book should be of interest to specialists of Islamic South-Asian and Southeast-Asian history, as also to those working in the growing field of Indian Ocean studies and comparative world history.