Those coming to the study of Islamic history for the first time face a baffling array of rulers and dynasties in the many different areas of Islam. This book pr

An introduction to the many Islamic dynasties that have arisen, shone and faded but have left the Muslim world all the richer.

Profiles rulers from the thirteenth through the twentieth centuries whose reigns and lands were affected by Mughal power throughout Iran, Central Asia, Afghanis

Between 1453 and 1526 Muslims founded three major states in the Mediterranean, Iran and South Asia: respectively the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires. By th