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

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campaigns were directed to gain influence and quell challenges to 'Ab-
basid stability in the metropole.
The world of the thirteenth-century region of Sind is the focus of
the next chapter, which asks, Why was the Chachnama writteb. in its
particular language and genre? To which political world was Chachnama
responding?