Islamic intellectual history in the Mughal era. Volume 1 / edited by S. Shiraz Ali, Daniyal Channa, Asad Q. Ahmed

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ali, S. Shiraz (Syed Shiraz), editor.

Channa, Daniyal, editor.

Ahmed, Asad Q., 1977- editor.

Series:

South Asian intellectual history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Muslims--India.

Muslims.

India--Civilization--1200-1765.

India.

India--History--1526-1765.

Mughal Empire--History.

Mughal Empire.

Civilization.

India--Mughal Empire.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Summary:

"Islamic Intellectual History in the Mughal Era 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"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Logic at the court of Humayun / Ali Anooshahr

The sultan as an artist : Creation and kingship in ʿĀdil Shāhī Bijapur / Zoë W. High

The verifiers’ path : God’s knowledge, Avicenna redux, and the imperial treatise of ʿAbd al-Ḥakīm Siyālkūtī (d. 1656) / S. Shiraz Ali

Voluntary actions : A translation and analysis of Jalāl al-Dīn Dawānī’s Sharḥ Hayākil al-Nūr with the gloss of Mīr Zāhid Harawī (d. 1689) / Nariman Aavani

Did Aurangzeb render grants hereditary for the ʿUlamāʾ? Ḥanafī legal doctrine and interpretative errors in Mughal historiography / Naveen Kanalu

Reforming the occult sciences in Mughal South Asia : The Hawāmiʿ of Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi (d. 1762) / Daniel Jacobius Morgan

Baḥr al-ʿUlūm (d. 1810) and the synthetical project of Farangī Maḥall : Exploring Ilhām in late postclassical Ḥanafī legal theory / Noah H. Taj

Madness, medicine, and Urdu poetry : Mīr Taqī Mīr’s Mas̱navī-yi Khvāb-o-Khayāl (1752) / Anurag Advani

What was philosophy in late pre-modern Muslim South Asia? / Asad Q. Ahmed

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed August 17, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Islamic intellectual history in the Mughal era

ISBN:

9781009702911

1009702912

OCLC:

1578127681

Publisher Number:

CIPO000418412

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license