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Abu´l-Fazl Ibn Mubarak - Ayeen Akbery: Volume 1 - 9781108067096 - V9781108067096
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Ayeen Akbery: Volume 1

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Description for Ayeen Akbery: Volume 1 Paperback. Published in 1800, the two-volume English translation of a sixteenth-century Persian document on the workings of the Mughal Empire. Translator(s): Gladwin, Francis. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History. Num Pages: 420 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: HBJF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 730.
Akbar the Great (1542–1605) is often regarded as the Mughal Empire's most accomplished ruler. This document on the workings of his empire was produced by Akbar's vizier, Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak (1551–1602). Between 1783 and 1786, the scholar Francis Gladwin (1744/5–1812) produced an English translation from the original Persian. Reissued here is the two-volume edition that appeared in 1800. As the work's dedicatee and Governor-General of Bengal, Warren Hastings had seen the translation as illuminating the Mughal Empire's 'original constitution' and believed it would educate and inform Britain's colonial administrators. Gladwin's text would not be superseded for many decades, and it ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Cambridge Library Collection United Kingdom
Language
Persian
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - South Asian History
Number of Pages
420
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781108067096
SKU
V9781108067096
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