Medieval Central Asia: Polity, Economy and Military Organization
(Fourteenth
to Sixteenth Centuries)
By- Mansura Haidar
The volume is the first of its kind as no other work
based on original sources and exclusively dealing with the above subject in
such detail is available. Central Asia has remained to be a world apart though
its institutions, administrative terminology, methods of warfare, pattern of
handicrafts seem to flicker in many other civilizations. The wide spectrum of
the study and varied contents of this book depict multifarious aspects of
Central Asian history ranging from civil to military organization, tribal to
settled, agrarian to artisan population and the life and activities of
Naqshbandi saints in the state business. It further deals with political setup,
changing notions of state craft, economic structure, system of taxation which
go to make the medieval Central Asian life come alive.
Mansura Haidar
is a well-known specialist on history
and culture of Central Asia. She has been teaching Islamic History, History of
Central and West Asia and medieval and modern Indian history at the Centre of
Advanced Study, Department of History, Aligarh Muslim University for the past
thirty-eight years. She has a profound knowledge of Islamic history both in
terms of vastness of sphere and span and her information is based on an indepth
study of the original sources.
ISBN
978-81-7304-554-7 2004 523p.
Rs.995/Pounds 70
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