Islamic civilization in South Asia
Subtitle: a history of Muslim power and presence in the Indian subcontinent
By: Burjor Avari
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9780415580618; 9780415580625; 9780203095225
Subjects: Islamic influences; Civilization; Islam; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: 2. The era of Arab predominance; title: 3. Turkish power and Persian culture in the age of transition; title: 4. The Delhi Sultanate at its zenith; title: 5. New centres of Muslim power and culture; title: 6. The Mughal ascendancy: Akbar and his successors; title: 7. The age of Mughal disintegration; title: 8. Muslims under the East India Company; title: 9. Stirrings of a Muslim modernity under the Raj; title: 10. Unity or separatism? Muslim dilemma at the end of the Raj; title: 11. Epilogue: New challenges in a fractured subcontinent.