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

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Copyright © 2016 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College

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Printed in the United States of America

First printing

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Asif, Manan Ahmed, author.

Title: A book of conquest : the Chachnama and Muslim

origins in South Asia / Manan Ahmed Asif.

Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University

Press, 2016. I Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016009480 I ISBN 978067466on3 (cloth)

Subjects: LCSH: Kuf1, 'Ali ibn l;Iiimid active 13th century. ,

Chachniima I Islam and politics-South Asia. I Islam-South

Asia-Historiography. I South Asia-Politics and government.

Classification: LCC BP173.7 .A4835 2016 I DDC 954.91/8021-dc

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/

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