Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World Volume III: Indo-Islamic Society, 14th-15th Centuries*
$67.00
Author: | Andr? Wink Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
ISBN 13: | 9789384082499 |
Year: | 2015 |
Subject: | History |
About the Book
This third volume of Andr? Wink?s acclaimed and pioneering Al-Hind: The Making of the IndoIslamic
World takes the reader from the late Mongol invasions to the end of the medieval period and the
beginnings of early modern times in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. It breaks new ground
by focusing attention on the role of geography, and more specifically on the interplay of nomadic, settled
and maritime societies. In doing so, it presents a picture of the world of India and the Indian Ocean on
the eve of the Portuguese discovery of the searoute: a world without stable parameters, of pervasive
geophysical change, inchoate and instable urbanism, highly volatile and itinerant elites of nomadic origin,
far-flung merchant diasporas, and a famine- and disease-prone peasantry whose life was a gamble on the
monsoon.