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A Programmer's Guide to Java SE 8 Oracle Certified Associate ...
Khalid A. MughalBased 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
Robert D. CrewsMunis 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, ...
Jos J. L. GommansThis 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
Richard FoltzThis 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
Valerie GonzalezSee 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
Audrey TruschkeThe 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
Ameen RihaniPlaying 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 ...
Preview41 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 ...
Richard MiniterThe 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
Ameen Fares RihaniOriginally published: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1911.
The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Bābur and the Culture of ...
PreviewA 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
More editionsThe 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
Indra DasThe 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
Indu SundaresanOffers 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
Jodie K. ScalesDarren 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
Jodie ScalesDarren 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
Munis D. FaruquiThis 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
Ameen RihaniAttracting a new generation of readers to Rihani's innovative work, this edition reveals his continued resonance with contemporary Arab American literature.
Private View
Khālid ḤasanMY 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 ...
PreviewSee 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
Narendra Krishna SinhaThis 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 ...
PreviewA. 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
Ameen Fares Ameen Fares RihaniIn 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
PreviewIncluded 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 ...
Audrey TruschkeThis 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.
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