The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship And Sainthood In Islam (South Asia Across The Disciplines)

This book brings into dialogue two major fields of scholarship that are rarely studied together: sacred kingship and sainthood in Islam. In doing so, it offers an original perspective on both. In historical terms, the foucs here is on the Mughal empire in sixteenth-century India and its antecedents and parallels in Timurid Central Asia and Safavid Iran.--Introduction, p. [1].

• | Author: A. Azfar Moin
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 29, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 368 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0231160372
• | ISBN-13: 9780231160377