Sufis and Sultans in Eighteenth-Century Delhi
Re-evaluating the Political Letters of Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi (d. 1762)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9084887 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Daniel Jacobius Morgan (0009-0003-2414-7533, Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA United States, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 5-6 |
| Pages | 427-463 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-16 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-4995 • E-ISSN: 1568-5209 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685209-12341625 |
| OpenAlex | W4401833930 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
While Shāh Walī Allāh’s political letters have been the subject of much scholarly discussion, they are still deeply misunderstood. These misunderstandings are due, primarily, to erroneous attributions of recipients, misidentified individuals in the letters, and the failure to read these “political letters” alongside Walī Allāh’s broader epistolographic corpus, contemporary biographical texts and political chronicles of the period. This article argues that far from being a critic of the Mughal Empire per se , Walī Allāh was closely associated with leading members of ʿĀlamgīr II ’s court. Moreover, his famous “invitation” to the Afghan ruler Aḥmad Shāh Abdālī, ostensibly asking him to invade Hindustan, should properly be understood as an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to attract the favorable attention of a military leader in order to mitigate the danger posed by his troops
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |