World of Books - Find your book here

A Programmer's Guide to Java SE 8 Oracle Certified Associate ...

A Programmer's Guide to Java SE 8 Oracle Certified Associate ...

Khalid A. Mughal

Based on Mughal and Rasmussen’s highly regarded guide to the original SCJP Certification, this streamlined volume has been thoroughly revised to reflect major changes in the new Java SE 8 OCA exam.
Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation

Afghan Modern: The History of a Global Nation

Robert D. Crews

Munis D. Faruqui, The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504–1719 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 49; see also Richards, The Mughal Empire. 27. Faruqui, The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 85, 150, 153–154, 171, 174,225.
Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire, ...

Mughal Warfare: Indian Frontiers and Highroads to Empire, ...

Jos J. L. Gommans

This work offers a survey of the military history of Mughal India during the age of imperial splendour from 1500 to 1700.
Mughal India and Central Asia

Mughal India and Central Asia

Richard Foltz

This book explores the Central Asian element in the formation of the civilization of Mughal India, focusing on the 16th and 17th centuries.
Aesthetic Hybridity in Mughal Painting, 1526–1658

Aesthetic Hybridity in Mughal Painting, 1526–1658

Valerie Gonzalez

See also Catherine B. Asher, “A Ray from the Sun”; A. Azfar Moin, “Peering through the Cracks in the Baburnama: The Textured Lives of Mughal Sovereigns, ” Indian Economic Social History Review 49, 4 (October–December 2012): 493– 526.
Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court

Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court

Audrey Truschke

The first book to read these Sanskrit and Persian works in tandem, Culture of Encounters recasts the Mughal Empire as a polyglot polity that collaborated with its Indian subjects to envision its sovereignty.
The Book of Khalid

The Book of Khalid

Ameen Rihani

Playing with classical Arabic literary forms, as well as Western literary conventions, Ameen Rihani’s The Book of Khalid is a unique contribution to American and World literature. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Celibate and Childless Men in Power: Ruling Eunuchs and ...

Celibate and Childless Men in Power: Ruling Eunuchs and ...

Preview

41 Beveridge, Akbarnama, 2:104; Lal, Domesticity and Power, 114–115. 42 Munis D. Faruqui, The Princes of the Mughal Empire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 117, citation on 127. 43 Faruqui, The Princes of the Mughal ...
Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid ...

Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid ...

Richard Miniter

The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed Richard Miniter. SENTINEL Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, U.S.A. Penguin Group (Canada), ...
The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Ameen Fares Rihani

Originally published: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911.
The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Bābur and the Culture of ...

The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Bābur and the Culture of ...

Preview

A critical biography of Zah?r al-Din Muhammad B?bur, the founder, in 1526, of the Timurid-Mughal Empire of India, offering
Religious Interactions in Mughal India

Religious Interactions in Mughal India

More editions

The essays for this volume interrogate this idea. They focus on Islamicate traditions in their interaction with coterminous Hindu ones in the three centuries between 1500 and 1800.
The Devourers

The Devourers

Indra Das

The tale features a rough wanderer in seventeenth-century Mughal India who finds himself irrevocably drawn to a defiant woman—and destined to be torn asunder by two clashing worlds.
The Twentieth Wife: A Novel

The Twentieth Wife: A Novel

Indu Sundaresan

Offers a fictionalized account of the life of Mehrunnisa, a sixteenth-century empress of India whose love helped shape the course of the Mughal empire in the seventeenth century.
As Awe Overcame the Angels

As Awe Overcame the Angels

Jodie K. Scales

Darren Smith-Khalid continues the watcher legacy by traveling to the bottom of the world, Antarctica to help uncover answers as to what has caused fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field that have pulled devastating meteorites into its ...
As Awe Overcame the Angels

As Awe Overcame the Angels

Jodie Scales

Darren Smith-Khalid continues the watcher legacy by traveling to the bottom of the world, Antarctica to help uncover answers as to what has caused fluctuations in the Earth's magnetic field that have pulled devastating meteorites into its ...
The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504–1719

The Princes of the Mughal Empire, 1504–1719

Munis D. Faruqui

This engaging book, which uses a vast archive of European and Persian sources, takes the reader from the founding of the empire under Babur to its decline in the 1700s.
The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

The Book of Khalid: A Critical Edition

Ameen Rihani

Attracting a new generation of readers to Rihani's innovative work, this edition reveals his continued resonance with contemporary Arab American literature.
Private View

Private View

Khālid Ḥasan

MY FAVOURITE ABSCONDER Wherever Mohammad Javed Ahmed, son of Mohammad Ramzan, junior clerk Forest Department, once resident at Quarter No 5, Line No 509, Loco Shed, Lahore, happens to be now, I wish him luck and hope  ...
Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory [2 volumes]: From ...

Peacemaking: From Practice to Theory [2 volumes]: From ...

Preview

See Nathan C. Funk and Abdul Aziz Said, Islam and Peacemaking in the Middle East (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2009), 61–62. 4. Al-Bukhari, Al- Adab Al-Mufrad, no. 212. 5. Khalid Kishtainy, “Violent and Nonviolent Struggle in  ...
The Historian as an Archivist

The Historian as an Archivist

Narendra Krishna Sinha

This volume of papers by an eminent historian of the last generation provides dependable source-based information on Nawab Mirqasim s desperate state of mind, Maharaja Nandakumar caught between two worlds, glimpses of the late Mughal period ...
The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic ...

The Scaffolding of Sovereignty: Global and Aesthetic ...

Preview

A. AZFAR MOIN When François Bernier, a French physician who spent the 1660s working and traveling across Mughal India, went to see the Taj Mahal for the last time, it was in the company of a recently arrived countryman. Bernier admitted ...
The Book of Khalid

The Book of Khalid

Ameen Fares Ameen Fares Rihani

In the Khedivial Library of Cairo, among the Papyri of the Scribe of Amen-Ra and the beautifully illuminated copies of the Korân, the modern Arabic Manuscript which forms the subject of this Book, was found.
Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology

Travel Narratives from the Age of Discovery: An Anthology

Preview

Included here are the Mughal Emperor Babur's first thoughts of India upon establishing his empire there, the Chinese chronicler Ma Huan's report detailing Chinese travel to the Middle East during the fifteenth century, and an account of ...
Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial ...

Aurangzeb: The Life and Legacy of India's Most Controversial ...

Audrey Truschke

This book invites students of South Asian history and religion into the world of the Mughal Empire, framing the contemporary debate on Aurangzeb's impact and legacy in accessible and engaging terms.

who called from an unknown number?