M Athar Ali
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Athar Ali |
| GIVEN NAMES | M Athar |
| FAMILY NAME | Ali |
| SIGNATURE | ALI M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aligarh Muslim University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4247-8048 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pursuing an Elusive Seeker of Universal Truth – the Identity and Environment of the Author of the Dabistān–i Mazāhib
Professor Athar Ali (born 18 January 1925) studied at Aligarh Muslim University 1948–53. His PhD studies were supervised by Professor Satish Chandra. In 1953 he was appointed research assistant at the university and became a Professor in 1978. He was Wilson Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute in 1986, Smuts Fellow, Cambridge, 1974–5 a nd President of the Indian History Congress in 1989. His major publications are The Mughal Nobility under Aurangz…
Muslims' Perception of Judaism and Christianity in Medieval India
As is well known, Islam arose in Arabia, which, alongside the pagan Communities, had a large number of tribes and groups which professed Judaism and Christianity. So far as we know, the relations between the Jews and Christians and their Arab neighbours in pre-Islamic times were cordial, or were not at any rate adversely affected by differences of faith. In its self-view Islam represented both a continuation and a supersession of the two earlier …
Classic Study of Mughal Administration
The Evolution of the Perception of India: Akbar and Abu'l Fazl
The Use of Sources in Mughal Historiography
India during the period of the Mughal dynasty (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) is exceptionally well illuminated by a large body of historical literature, mainly in Persian. This literature followed the traditions of classical Persian historiography, the models of which like Yazdi's Zafarnama (a history of Timur) and Mir Khwand's Rauzatu's Safa (a history of the world), both written in the fifteenth century, were widely read in India. By its very…
The Mughal Polity-A Critique of Revisionist Approaches
The nature of the pre-colonial Indian state, especially as one could see it in similarity or opposition to the state in Europe, has exercised a particular fascination since the seventeenth century, when François Bernier spelled out his theory about Oriental monarchies, with special reference to the Mughal Empire and Turkey. It may be recalled that he saw eastern states different from the European in two major particulars: (1) The king here was th…
Translations of Sanskrit Works at Akbar's Court
Encounter and Efflorescence: Genesis of the Medieval Civilization
The Islamic Background To Indian History
The medieval period of Indian history, as conventionally fixed by historians, c. 1000 to c. 1750 had so deep an imprint of Islam, that during much of the period, India could be held to belong culturally to the Islamic World, not on its periphery, but close to its core. It is, of course, the uniqueness of India's situation, that at the very same time, strictly in terms of its Hindu component, it could be said to be a world in its own right, with I…
The Islamic Background to Indian History: An Interpretation of the Islamic Past
Towards an interpretation of the Mughal Empire
It is nowadays common for Indian history textbooks to treat the various “empires” that successively occupied the stage of Indian history, with their respective “administrations”, as so many successive repetitions with merely different names for offices and institutions that in substance remained the same: namely, the King, the Ministers, the Provinces, the Governors, the Taxes, Landgrants, and so on. But D. D. Kosambi, in his Introduction to the …
The Passing of Empire: The Mughal Case
There have been numerous attempts to explain the fall of the Mughal Empire; and I truly feel great hesitation in adding myself to the long list of its exponents. To historians like Irvine and Sarkar, the decline could be explained in terms of a personal deterioration in the quality of the kings and their nobles. The harem influence grew-and women, for some strange unscientific reason, are always supposed to be a bad influence. The kings and noble…
The Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb
This text explores how the ruling class of the Mughal empire under Aurangzeb was structured and operated. The factors governing the emperor's attitudes are studied exclusively with reference to contemporary sources
The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb
The Passing of Empire: The Mughal Case
There have been numerous attempts to explain the fall of the Mughal Empire; and I truly feel great hesitation in adding myself to the long list of its exponents. To historians like Irvine and Sarkar, the decline could be explained in terms of a personal deterioration in the quality of the kings and their nobles. The harem influence grew-and women, for some strange unscientific reason, are always supposed to be a bad influence. The kings and noble…
The Use of Sources in Mughal Historiography
India during the period of the Mughal dynasty (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) is exceptionally well illuminated by a large body of historical literature, mainly in Persian. This literature followed the traditions of classical Persian historiography, the models of which like Yazdi's Zafarnama (a history of Timur) and Mir Khwand's Rauzatu's Safa (a history of the world), both written in the fifteenth century, were widely read in India. By its very…
Translations of Sanskrit Works at Akbar's Court
The Evolution of the Perception of India: Akbar and Abu'l Fazl
Pursuing an Elusive Seeker of Universal Truth – the Identity and Environment of the Author of the Dabistān–i Mazāhib
Professor Athar Ali (born 18 January 1925) studied at Aligarh Muslim University 1948–53. His PhD studies were supervised by Professor Satish Chandra. In 1953 he was appointed research assistant at the university and became a Professor in 1978. He was Wilson Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute in 1986, Smuts Fellow, Cambridge, 1974–5 a nd President of the Indian History Congress in 1989. His major publications are The Mughal Nobility under Aurangz…
The Mughal Polity-A Critique of Revisionist Approaches
The nature of the pre-colonial Indian state, especially as one could see it in similarity or opposition to the state in Europe, has exercised a particular fascination since the seventeenth century, when François Bernier spelled out his theory about Oriental monarchies, with special reference to the Mughal Empire and Turkey. It may be recalled that he saw eastern states different from the European in two major particulars: (1) The king here was th…
Encounter and Efflorescence: Genesis of the Medieval Civilization
Muslims' Perception of Judaism and Christianity in Medieval India
As is well known, Islam arose in Arabia, which, alongside the pagan Communities, had a large number of tribes and groups which professed Judaism and Christianity. So far as we know, the relations between the Jews and Christians and their Arab neighbours in pre-Islamic times were cordial, or were not at any rate adversely affected by differences of faith. In its self-view Islam represented both a continuation and a supersession of the two earlier …
Towards an interpretation of the Mughal Empire
It is nowadays common for Indian history textbooks to treat the various “empires” that successively occupied the stage of Indian history, with their respective “administrations”, as so many successive repetitions with merely different names for offices and institutions that in substance remained the same: namely, the King, the Ministers, the Provinces, the Governors, the Taxes, Landgrants, and so on. But D. D. Kosambi, in his Introduction to the …
The Mughal Nobility under Aurangzeb
The Mughal Nobility Under Aurangzeb
This text explores how the ruling class of the Mughal empire under Aurangzeb was structured and operated. The factors governing the emperor's attitudes are studied exclusively with reference to contemporary sources
The Passing of Empire: The Mughal Case
There have been numerous attempts to explain the fall of the Mughal Empire; and I truly feel great hesitation in adding myself to the long list of its exponents. To historians like Irvine and Sarkar, the decline could be explained in terms of a personal deterioration in the quality of the kings and their nobles. The harem influence grew-and women, for some strange unscientific reason, are always supposed to be a bad influence. The kings and noble…
Towards an interpretation of the Mughal Empire
It is nowadays common for Indian history textbooks to treat the various “empires” that successively occupied the stage of Indian history, with their respective “administrations”, as so many successive repetitions with merely different names for offices and institutions that in substance remained the same: namely, the King, the Ministers, the Provinces, the Governors, the Taxes, Landgrants, and so on. But D. D. Kosambi, in his Introduction to the …
The Islamic Background To Indian History
The medieval period of Indian history, as conventionally fixed by historians, c. 1000 to c. 1750 had so deep an imprint of Islam, that during much of the period, India could be held to belong culturally to the Islamic World, not on its periphery, but close to its core. It is, of course, the uniqueness of India's situation, that at the very same time, strictly in terms of its Hindu component, it could be said to be a world in its own right, with I…
The Islamic Background to Indian History: An Interpretation of the Islamic Past
Encounter and Efflorescence: Genesis of the Medieval Civilization
Translations of Sanskrit Works at Akbar's Court
The Mughal Polity-A Critique of Revisionist Approaches
The nature of the pre-colonial Indian state, especially as one could see it in similarity or opposition to the state in Europe, has exercised a particular fascination since the seventeenth century, when François Bernier spelled out his theory about Oriental monarchies, with special reference to the Mughal Empire and Turkey. It may be recalled that he saw eastern states different from the European in two major particulars: (1) The king here was th…
The Use of Sources in Mughal Historiography
India during the period of the Mughal dynasty (sixteenth-eighteenth centuries) is exceptionally well illuminated by a large body of historical literature, mainly in Persian. This literature followed the traditions of classical Persian historiography, the models of which like Yazdi's Zafarnama (a history of Timur) and Mir Khwand's Rauzatu's Safa (a history of the world), both written in the fifteenth century, were widely read in India. By its very…
The Evolution of the Perception of India: Akbar and Abu'l Fazl
Classic Study of Mughal Administration
Pursuing an Elusive Seeker of Universal Truth – the Identity and Environment of the Author of the Dabistān–i Mazāhib
Professor Athar Ali (born 18 January 1925) studied at Aligarh Muslim University 1948–53. His PhD studies were supervised by Professor Satish Chandra. In 1953 he was appointed research assistant at the university and became a Professor in 1978. He was Wilson Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute in 1986, Smuts Fellow, Cambridge, 1974–5 a nd President of the Indian History Congress in 1989. His major publications are The Mughal Nobility under Aurangz…
Muslims' Perception of Judaism and Christianity in Medieval India
As is well known, Islam arose in Arabia, which, alongside the pagan Communities, had a large number of tribes and groups which professed Judaism and Christianity. So far as we know, the relations between the Jews and Christians and their Arab neighbours in pre-Islamic times were cordial, or were not at any rate adversely affected by differences of faith. In its self-view Islam represented both a continuation and a supersession of the two earlier …
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