Al-Hind, Volume 2 Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries

Book info: Al-Hind, Volume 2 Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries (Paperback, 428 pages) – Brill, 1997. Language: English.

This is the second of a projected series of five volumes dealing with the expansion of Islam in al-Hind, or South and Southeast Asia. While the previous volume covered the 7th-11th centuries, this new volume deals principally with the Islamic conquest of the 11th-13th centuries.The book also provides an analysis of the newly emerging organizational forms of the Indo-Islamic state in these centuries, migration patterns which developed between the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia, maritime developments in the Indian Ocean, and religious change.The comparative and world-historical perspective which is advanced here on the dynamic interaction between nomadic and agricultural societies should make it of interest to all historians concerned with Asia in this period.