Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Volume IV: The Age of the Great Mughals, 16th-17th Centuries. Part Two: The Rise of Islam from the Indu (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004729193)

This book provides a new answer to an old and often-asked question: why did the bulk of conversion to Islam take place not in the imperial heartlands of the Indo-Islamic world but among the indigenous populations of the Indus borderlands and the coastal, maritime and insular peripheries of the Indian Ocean and the Malay-Indonesian archipelago?
The answer is found in the conjunction of geographical, political and economic factors affecting the Indo-Islamic states of the 13th to 17th centuries, both in their medieval origins and their interaction with the Portuguese Estado da India and the East India Companies.

Author: André Wink
ISBN-10: 9004729194
ISBN-13: 9789004729193
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 03/06/2025
Pages: 284
Format: Hardcover