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

56 A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY from Arabic into Persian was thus a key part of the process of Persian- ization. Alam notes a number ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY 57 a person to the Prophet's family or to early Muslims. Seen within the prestige economy of city state ...

58 A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY accounts in Jawami Hikayat, which incorporated stories from Gujarat, Uch, and Multan alongside accou ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY 59 brought peace and prosperity to the city: "[Kazlak Khan] called back all who had scattered from the ...

60 A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY is ample evidence that the historians of the early thirteenth century, Juzjani included, saw pedagog ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY pies of the bravery and courage of Arabs and Syrians were in- scribed, and their stature and intelligen ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY her with garments of exquisite language, justice, and wisdom. No mighty rider took this horse into the ...

", A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY As the genre grew, it developed into a crucial commentary (and source) on a range of issues, such as ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY means of a history and advice manual, couching his own work in the prestige economy of Arab descent.^36 ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY Chachnama's truncated history, beginning with the foundation of a Brahmin polity that is later mirrored ...

66 A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY (Iskalanda). In the city was one of Chach's confidants, to whom Chach has promised the position of m ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY The recognition that the limit of Sind extends to the present of the Chachnama directly connects the te ...

68 A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY model of regional histories. In addition to accounts of rulers, governors, and events, it includes t ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY haqi's tradition of presenting accounts of the past as political theory for the present. By unmooring C ...

70 A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY to the British mission after the annexation of Sind by the East India Company in 1843. Almost every ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY 71 We have now seen the ways in which Chachnama describes geog- raphy as lived in, with plantations, ci ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY expounded by experts; somewhere the Rasaka is staged by the ac- tors. Somewhere the Sudayavasta story i ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY 73 ward, such that by the thirteenth century the Muslim communities contained "not only wealthy traders ...

74 A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY report, is conceivably the Rashtrakuta king of the Deccan, Govinda III (c. 793-814). More likely is ...

A FOUNDATION FOR HISTORY 75 second that the Muslim governor collects all of the offerings given to the idol and redistributes a ...