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 Indus to the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72919-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 137 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wink, André

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

List of Maps

Introduction

1 The Rise of Islam in the Indus Borderlands 1 The Desolate Character of the Country through Which That River Runs 2 The Towns Few, and Far Distant from Each Other 3 The Pre-Islamic Heritage 4 Explaining Conversion to Islam 5 Nomadic Conquest and Destruction 6 Religious Conversion 7 Chronology

2 Contested Coasts: Islam and Politics in the Indian Ocean and the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago 1 China’s Southern Ocean 2 European Expansion and the Closing of the Maritime Frontier

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

André Wink, Ph.D. Leiden (1984), is H. Kern Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to that, he taught and lectured at numerous universities in the USA, Europe and Asia, and was a fellow/member at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and the Institute for Research in the Humanities.

He is the author of Land and Sovereignty in India (1986), Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volumes I-III (1990-2004), Akbar (2008), and other works, many of which have been translated into Arabic, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and other
major languages.