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ISBN: 978 0 415 29782 0
Format: Hardback
Pages: 240
List price(s): 60.00 GBP 105.00 USD
Publication date: 29 December 2008
The book reveals the significance of epigraphy as a source for Islamic history and culture.
No overall survey of the Muslim inscriptions in India has ever been attempted on this scale before. The book reveals the significance of epigraphy as a source for Islamic history and culture, and goes on to trace in fascinating detail the diffusion of Islam in Bengal from early merchants, to the mighty Mughals through to the British Raj; covering royalty to Sufis and Khanquahs.
1. Islam in Bengal in the Light of Epigraphic Texts 2. Early Islamic Inscriptions 3. Inscriptions of the Sultanate Period 4. Later Islamic Inscriptions 5. Undated and Miscellaneous Inscriptions Appendices
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