Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam
by
A. Azfar Moin
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sacred being on earth. The holiest of all saints and above the distinctions of religion, he styled himself as the messiah reborn. Yet the Mughal emperor was...