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Al-Hind: the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries Vol 2 Book
During the early mediaeval Islamic expansion in the 7th to 11th centuries, al-Hind (India and its Indianized hinterland) was characterized by two organizational modes: the long-distance trade and mobile wealth of the peripheral frontier states, and the settled agriculture of the heartland. These two different types of social, economic and political organization were successfully infused during the 11th to 13th centuries, and India became the hub of world trade. During this period, the Middle East declined in importance, Central Asia was unified under the Mongols, and Islam expanded far into the Indian subcontinent. Instead of being devastated by the Mongols, who were prevented from penetrating beyond the western periphery of al-Hind by the absence of sufficient good pasture land, the … read more...
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