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Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World
Volume IV: The Age of the Great Mughals, 16th-17th Centuries. Part Two: The Rise of Islam from the Indus to the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago
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This book provides a new answer to an old and often-asked question: why did the bulk of conversion to Islam take place not in the imperial heartlands of the Indo-Islamic world but among the indigenous populations of the Indus borderlands and the coastal, maritime and insular peripheries of the Indian Ocean and the Malay-Indonesian archipelago?
The answer is found in the conjunction of geographical, political and economic factors affecting the Indo-Islamic states of the 13th to 17th centuries, both in their medieval origins and their interaction with the Portuguese Estado da India and the East India Companies.
The answer is found in the conjunction of geographical, political and economic factors affecting the Indo-Islamic states of the 13th to 17th centuries, both in their medieval origins and their interaction with the Portuguese Estado da India and the East India Companies.
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.
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List of Maps
Introduction
1 The Rise of Islam in the Indus Borderlands
â1âThe Desolate Character of the Country through Which That River Runs
â2âThe Towns Few, and Far Distant from Each Other
â3âThe Pre-Islamic Heritage
â4âExplaining Conversion to Islam
â5âNomadic Conquest and Destruction
â6âReligious Conversion
â7âChronology
2 Contested Coasts: Islam and Politics in the Indian Ocean and the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago
â1âChinaâs Southern Ocean
â2âEuropean Expansion and the Closing of the Maritime Frontier
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
List of Maps
Introduction
1 The Rise of Islam in the Indus Borderlands
â1âThe Desolate Character of the Country through Which That River Runs
â2âThe Towns Few, and Far Distant from Each Other
â3âThe Pre-Islamic Heritage
â4âExplaining Conversion to Islam
â5âNomadic Conquest and Destruction
â6âReligious Conversion
â7âChronology
2 Contested Coasts: Islam and Politics in the Indian Ocean and the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago
â1âChinaâs Southern Ocean
â2âEuropean Expansion and the Closing of the Maritime Frontier
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Scholars and students, as well as the general educated public, interested in the medieval and early modern history of Asia and the Islamic world, European expansion, as well as world history.