The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760: Volume 17

by Richard M. Eaton

Book Overview

In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard Eaton uses archaeological evidence, monuments, narrative histories, poetry, and Mughal administrative documents to trace the long historical encounter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520205073
• ISBN13: 9780520205079
• Release Date: July 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 388 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 8.5"