The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760 /

In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Ri...

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Prif Awdur: Eaton, Richard Maxwell
Fformat: Licensed eBooks
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Cyhoeddwyd: Berkeley : University of California Press ©1993.
Cyfres:Comparative studies on Muslim societies ; 17.
Mynediad Ar-lein:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.5233026
Tabl Cynhwysion:
  • Section 1. Bengal under the Sultan: Before the Turkish Conquest
  • The Articulation of Political Authority
  • Early Sufis of the Delta
  • Economy, Society, and Culture
  • Mass Conversion to Islam: Theories and Protagonists
  • Section 2. Bengal under the Mughals
  • The Rise of Mughal Power
  • Mughal Culture and Its Diffusion
  • Islam and the Agrarian Order in the East
  • Mosque and Shrine in the Rural Landscape
  • The Rooting of Islam in Bengal
  • Conclusion: Mint Towns and Inscription Sites under Muslim Rulers, 1204-1760
  • Principal Muslim Rulers of Bengal.