{"product_id":"the-mughals-and-the-sufis-islam-and-political-imagination-in-india-1500-1750-hardcover","title":"The Mughals and the Sufis: Islam and Political Imagination in India, 1500-1750 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMuzaffar Alam\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExamines the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centered around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on a critical study of a large number of contemporary Persian texts, court chronicles, epistolary collections, and biographies of sufi mystics, \u003ci\u003eThe Mughals and the Sufis\u003c\/i\u003e examines the complexities in the relationship between Mughal political culture and the two dominant strains of Islam's Sufi traditions in South Asia: one centered around orthodoxy, the other focusing on a more accommodating and mystical spirituality. Muzaffar Alam analyses the interplay of these elements, their negotiation and struggle for resolution via conflict and coordination, and their longer-term outcomes as the empire followed its own political and cultural trajectory as it shifted from the more liberal outlook of Emperor Akbar \"The Great\" (r. 1556-1605) to the more rigid attitudes of his great-grandson, Aurangzeb 'Alamgir (r. 1658-1701). Alam brings to light many new and underutilized sources relevant to the religious and cultural history of the Mughals and reinterprets well-known sources from a new perspective to provide one of the most detailed and nuanced portraits of Indian Islam under the Mughal Empire available today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMuzaffar Alam \u003c\/b\u003eis George V. Bobrinskoy Professor in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including, \u003ci\u003eThe Languages of Political Islam: India 1200-1800\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India: Awadh and the Punjab, 1707-1748\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n        \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 468\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.19 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51786344562976,"sku":"9781438484891","price":177.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5ab19d0b40600d44ce50038bce34ea91.webp?v=1780632630","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-mughals-and-the-sufis-islam-and-political-imagination-in-india-1500-1750-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}