A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia. By Manan Ahmed Asif. Cambridge,...
A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia. By Manan Ahmed Asif. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. 250 pp. ISBN: 9780674660113 (cloth)
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Pittsburgh: Duke University Press, NC & IL
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In other words, Asif offers a multivalent critique of the history of the Chachnama, a heavily cited, reproduced text that is a prominent feature of works that account for Muslim histories in South Asia. [...]he comes back to the narrative of the origins of Islam in India, locating it within European translation projects of the eighteenth century an...
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A Book of Conquest: The Chachnama and Muslim Origins in South Asia. By Manan Ahmed Asif. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2016. 250 pp. ISBN: 9780674660113 (cloth)
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2448352001
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0021-9118
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10.1017/S0021911820001515
