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

96 DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? communities between the eighth and fourteenth centuries in India. While a constellatio ...

DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? 97 tion mirrors that of Arthasastra, which renders the tasks in the same order: first to ...

98 DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH You? claims of genre and form. Imagined speakers provide a surface reading as well as a con ...

DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? 99 highly aware of difference as a categorical classification system. An il- lustration i ...

100 DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH you? royal power, and the capacity of the courtiers to strike back, perme- ates the fables ...

DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? IOI on wisdom in Arabic, including Adab al-Kabir (The Comprehensive Book of the Rules of ...

I02 DEAR SON, WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? Muhammad bin Qasim's piety in the text, which incorporate totemic usage of Qur'anic v ...

4 A Demon with Ruby Eyes THE LANDSCAPE OF UcH is a sacral geography, with peaks and val- leys that orient the visitor and the in ...

A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES Grave of Rai Tulsi Das. (Photo © Manan Ahmed Asif.) present.^3 These were material homes for bodies belon ...

A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES 105 A Hindu grave. (Photo © Manan Ahmed Asif.) annexed the caretaker^1 s house. He had not, however, been ...

ro6 A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES Uch as representative of a despotic Islam that conquered, forcibly con- verted, and then systematical ...

A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES 107 ments that tie mass conversion to conquest. (These arguments have shaped scholarship on medieval reli ...

ro8 A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES beat it to shreds" to punish him for the resistance.^6 Hearing of this, the priest laughs and says, " ...

A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES "So why did you resist me in taking Brahmanabad?" The priest replied, "When the ruler Agham had passed aw ...

IIO A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES of the ruler, as represented by Chach, and the sacral power of the priest, as represented by the (inv ...

A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES III the gold and the rubies. I only wanted to show that it has no power to help or harm." He then conquer ...

II2 A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES century. As part of Mahmud Ghazni's armed assault on the Isma'ili city states, Biruni makes a point t ...

A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES II3 Biruni's chief concern is to mark Qaramita transgression-they are the ones who abandoned the policy o ...

II4 A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES and political spaces. Important for the argument here, the caretaker recognizes Qasim's pointed decla ...

A DEMON WITH RUBY EYES II5 Muslim-Brahmin encounter in the Qasim cycle. The red eyes put into conceptual conversation the creeda ...