Title: The millennial sovereign
Description: "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].
Subjects: Kings and rulers, Muslim saints, Sovereignty, Islam, Kings and rulers, religious aspects, Harbors, united states, New york (state), politics and government, New jersey, politics and government, RELIGION, General, Religious aspects