Islamic Intellectual History in the Mughal Era: Volume 1

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Islamic Intellectual History in the Mughal World brings together new scholarship on the rich and varied intellectual life of the Mughal world, challenging long-standing narratives of decline and dichotomies such as orthodoxy versus heterodoxy. Spanning disciplines including philosophy, logic, poetics, mysticism, law, and medicine, the chapters collectively illuminate the infrastructures, languages, and actors that shaped Muslim scholarly production in South Asia between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Drawing on Arabic, Persian, and vernacular sources, the essays situate the Mughal scholarly enterprise within wider transregional currents across West, Central, and South Asia. With critical attention to genres, networks, and conceptual debates, the volume offers fresh perspectives on how knowledge was produced, circulated, and contested in early modern South Asia. It will be of interest to scholars and students in Islamic studies, South Asian history, religious studies, and global intellectual history.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-09-30
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:South Asian Intellectual History
Antal sidor:325
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009702898

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S. Shiraz Ali holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley, in affiliation with the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion. His dissertation is entitled 'Faces Set Ablaze: Verifiers and the Formation of Arabic Philosophy in Mughal South Asia, 1550–1700' (2026). Daniyal Channa is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a master's degree in the study of religion from Harvard University. He is interested in the intellectual and cultural history of medieval and early modern West and South Asia. Asad Q. Ahmed is the Magistretti Distinguished Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Hijaz (University of Oxford, 2011), Avicenna's Deliverance: Logic (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Palimpsests of Themselves: Logic and Commentary in Muslim India (University of California Press, 2022).

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Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Logic at the Court of Humayun Ali Anoosharhr; 2. The Sultan as Artist: Creation and Kingship in Adil Shahi Bijapur Zoe W. High; 3. The Verifiers' Path: God's Knowledge, Avicenna Redux, and The Imperial Treatise of 'Abd al-Hakim Siyalkuti (d. 1656) S. Shiraz Ali; 4. Voluntary Actions: A Translation and Analysis of Jalal al-Din Dawani's Sharḥ Hayakil al-Nur with the Gloss of Mir Zahid Harawi (d. 1689) Nariman Aavani; 5. Did Aurangzeb Render Grants Hereditary for the 'Ulama'? Hanafi Legal Doctrine and Interpretative Errors in Mughal Historiography Naveen Kanalu; 6. Reforming the Occult Sciences in Mughal South Asia: The Hawami of Shah Wali Allah of Delhi (d. 1762) Daniel Jacobius Morgan; 7. Bahr al-Ulum (d. 1810) and the Synthetical Project of Farangi Mahall: Exploring Ilham in Late-Postclassical Hanafi Legal Theory Noah H. Taj; 8. Madness, Medicine, and Urdu Poetry: Mir Taqi Mir's Masnavi-yi Khvab-o-Khayal (1752) Anurag Advani; 9. What Was Philosophy in Late Pre-Modern Muslim South Asia? Asad Q. Ahmed; Notes on Editors and Contributors; Index.