Al-Hind, Volume 1 Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7th-11th Centuries

by André Wink

In this volume, Andr? Wink analyzes the beginning of the process of momentous and long-term change that came with the Islamization of the regions that the Arabs called al-Hind--India and large parts of its Indianized hinterland. In the seventh to eleventh centuries, the expansion of Islam had a largely commercial impact on al-Hind. In the peripheral states of the Indian subcontinent, fluid resources, intensive raiding and trading activity,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0391041738
• ISBN13: 9780391041738
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"