A Book of Conquest The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia

FRONTIER WITH THE HOUSE OF GOLD Baladhuri highlight the scarcity of resources in Sind and condemn needless expeditions which end ...

FRONTIER WITH THE HOUSE OF GOLD Lanka) sent some women, born in his realm as Muslims, to }:Iajjaj. Their fathers were traders an ...

FRONTIER WITH THE HOUSE OF GOLD The Expedition of 712 Now I want to turn to Baladhuri's account of Muhammad bin Qasim to constru ...

FRONTIER WITH THE HOUSE OF GOLD trenches around the troops anp set up lances around the trenches with flags affixed to them. The ...

40 FRONTIER WITH THE HOUSE OF GOLD On the authority of Mada'ini, who was borrowing a war verse com- posed by a warrior from Banu ...

FRONTIER WITH THE HOUSE OF GOLD They circumambulated it and shaved their heads and beards. They claim that the idol (sanam) insi ...

FRONTIER WITH THE HOUSE OF GOLD This concludes Baladhuri's section on Qasim's campaign in Sind. His narrative continues to expla ...

FRONTIER WITH THE HOUSE OF GOLD 43 of the placement of other faiths in Islam's conception of the world. He uses the term budd to ...

44 FRONTIER WITH THE HOUSE OF GOLD from the city of Navasarika in southern Gujarat, where the Calukya prince Pulakesiraja defeat ...

FRONTIER WITH THE HOUSE OF GOLD 45 sermon in both cities was read in the name of the 'Abbasid caliph.^62 These cities had very l ...

FRONTIER WITH THE HOUSE OF GOLD campaigns were directed to gain influence and quell challenges to 'Ab- basid stability in the me ...

2. A Foundation for History I WAS IN A CAR, driving into Uch from the neighboring town· of Ahmedpur Shirkia with S. A. Bukhari, ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY is necessary to unread Chachnama from its perch in the origins narrative. Dismantling the origins narra ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY 49 Any of the descendants from Muhammad Sam Ghur in the twelfth century to Zahiruddin Bahar in the sixt ...

.. 50 A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY merit and are attested in accounts from the fifth and sixth centuries.^4 Multan was a known cente ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY 51 in 1210-n fractured the eastern frontier of Sam's realm even further among his various lieutenants ( ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY biography of Qabacha is worth citing in full, as it discusses Qabacha's political and military maneuver ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY 53 claims. The gathering of luminaries at court, the grants, and the com- mission of histories and poet ...

54 A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY of his daughter Razia as the new sultan. Juzjani went on to a remark- able thirty-year career with t ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY 55 Chachnama was a directly embedded in this cosmopolis with its fluid political future and its marked ...