Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on transliteration; Introduction; 1 How Babur became a ghazi; 2 Disclaiming Tamerlane's inheritance, and the rise of the Mughal Empire; 3 The origins of the ghazi king; 4 Inventing the image of the founder king; 5 The triad of kings; 6 Tatars and Ottomans; 7 The ghazas of Sultan Murad II; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary
The Ghazi Sultans were the frontier holy warrior kings of late medieval and early modern Islamic history. This book is a comparative study across the Muslim world at that time and demonstrates the extent to which the Ghazis were influenced by the actions and writings of their predecessors in shaping policy and the way in which they saw themselves
