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A collection of moral stories divided into eight themes: The Conduct of Kings , The Character of Dervishes , The Superiority of Contentment , The Benefits of Silence , Love…
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Wheeler M. Thackston
Both an official chronicle and the highly personal memoir of the emperor of Babur (1483-1530), The Baburnama presents a vivid picture of life in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Persia, and India during…
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Little is known of the Luri dialect of Khurramabad, but Amanolahi has collected various stories from his native town in the local language. Together with Thackston he has prepared a…
Abu'l-Fazl
The History of Akbar by Abu'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. Volume 7 includes accounts of the marriage of Akbar’s heir Salim, the pacification of…
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The History of Akbar by Abu'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history. The eighth and final volume includes the conquest of Ahmadnagar, prince Salim’s rebellion, and…
The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl, is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose artistry. It is at once a biography of the…
The History of Akbar by Abu'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose artistry. In this volume, Humayun’s turbulent reign ends, and…
The History of Akbar by Abu'l-Fazl is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose artistry, and is both a biography and a chronicle…
The History of Akbar, Volume 4 by Abu'l-Fazl narrates the second eight years of Akbar’s reign, including his visit to Ajmer, the arrival of an embassy from the Safavid court…
The History of Akbar, Volume 5 by Abu'l-Fazl details the seventeenth to twenty-second years of Akbar’s reign, including the conquest of Gujarat, the capture of Rohtas fort from rebel Afghans…
The History of Akbar, Volume 6 by Abu'l-Fazl details the twenty-third to twenty-eighth years of Akbar’s reign, including accounts of the quelling of rebellions in Bihar, Bengal, and Kabul, and…
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Mikha'il Mishaqah
The author’s analysis of the internecine strife and fierce clan rivalry rampant in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries puts into perspective the turmoil into which the Lebanon has fallen today…
Pedro Moura Carvalho
Akbar’s commission of a Life of Christ from the Jesuit Jerome Xavier resulted in a fascinating text (1602) in which the author’s concern not to antagonize his Muslim hosts is…
This work treats in one volume the most important fields in Islamic studies: Persian literature and philology; Islamic history and historiography; The essays are representative of the fields in which…
