EUR  â¬187.20EUR  â¬156.00 excl. VAT
Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World
Volume IV: Age of the Great Mughals, 16th-17th Centuries. Part One: Afghans and Mughals in the Struggle
Author:
The first part of the long-awaited fourth volume of André Winkâs 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.
Eschewing the conventional military and technological explanations, the book adopts an institutional explanation that emphasizes the Central and Inner Asian post-nomadic heritage of the dynasty and, in the context of persistent rivalry with the Indo-Afghans, its successful politics of incorporation and accommodation of Muslim and non-Muslim constituencies alike.
Eschewing the conventional military and technological explanations, the book adopts an institutional explanation that emphasizes the Central and Inner Asian post-nomadic heritage of the dynasty and, in the context of persistent rivalry with the Indo-Afghans, its successful politics of incorporation and accommodation of Muslim and non-Muslim constituencies alike.
André Wink, Ph. D. Leiden (1984), is H. Kern Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to that, he taught and lectured at numerous universities in the USA, Europe and Asia, and was a fellow/member at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and the Institute for Research in the Humanities.
He is the author of Land and Sovereignty in India (1986), Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volumes I-III (1990-2004), Akbar (2008), and other works, many of which have been translated into Arabic, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and other major languages.
He is the author of Land and Sovereignty in India (1986), Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volumes I-III (1990-2004), Akbar (2008), and other works, many of which have been translated into Arabic, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and other major languages.
Preface
Abbreviations
List of Maps
Introduction
1 On the Road of Failure: the Afghans in Hind
â1âThe Pastoral-Nomadic Economy of Afghanistan and Kabul
â2âAfghan Tribal Society
â3âThe Failure of the Afghan Empire
â4âWaiting for the Millennium
â5âDurrani Imperialism
â6âThe Origins of Modern Afghanistan
2 From the Mongols to the Great Mughals
â1âOrigins of the Mughal Dynasty
â2âThe Mughal Dynasty from Babur to Alamgir
â3âConclusion: the Long Shadow of Chingiz Khan
3 The Empire of the Great Mughals and Its Indian Foundations
â1âA Farewell to Horses?
â2âThe Culture of Chivalry
â3ââThe Greatest and Most Powerful Empire in the Worldâ
â4âThe Sharers of the Realm
4 Religion, Society and Politics in Mughal India
â1âChristianity
â2âConflicting Views of Mughal Imperial Religion and Attitudes towards Religion
â3âReligious Reform
â4âIconoclasm
â5âMonotheism vs. Paganism
â6âSaints of the Mughals
â7âSunni and ShiÊ¿a
â8âImperial Law?
â9âLegal and Political Arenas
â10âA Disciplinary Revolution
â11âConversion and Devotional Movements
Conclusion
Bibliography
Scholars and students, as well as the general educated public, interested in the medieval and early modern history of Asia and the Islamic world, as well as world history.