The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 - Rilegato

Eaton, Richard M.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0520080777 ISBN 13: 9780520080775

Casa editrice: Univ of California Pr, 1993

Riassunto

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? Richard Eaton uses archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents to trace the long historical encounter between Islamic and Indic civilizations.

Moving from the year 1204, when Persianized Turks from North India annexed the former Hindu states of the lower Ganges delta, to 1760, when the British East India Company rose to political dominance there, Eaton explores these moving frontiers, focusing especially on agrarian growth and religious change.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Richard M. Eaton is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, Tucson, and the author ofThe Sufis of Bijapur (1978).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of California Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0520080777
• ISBN 13: 9780520080775
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 388