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Frank disputations

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  • Muzaffar Alam

    (University of Chicago)

  • Sanjay Subrahmanyam

    (University of California at Los Angeles)

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The essay sets out to re-examine the relations between Catholics and Muslims in the Mughal court in the early seventeenth century, during the reign of Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605–27). It does so by confronting two sets of source–materials, namely the letters of the Jesuit Jerónimo Xavier and Persian–language texts from the Mughal court. In particular it focuses on the important and neglected figure of Maulana ‘Abdus Sattar ibn Qasim Lahauri, an intellectual who worked with and also studied the Europeans. The recent publication of a hitherto unknown text by him, under the title of MajÄ lis-i JahÄ ngÄ«rÄ«, is in part the occasion for us to return to this classic theme in the historiography of cross-cultural encounters.

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  • Muzaffar Alam & Sanjay Subrahmanyam, 2009. "Frank disputations," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 46(4), pages 457-511, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:indeco:v:46:y:2009:i:4:p:457-511
    DOI: 10.1177/001946460904600401
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