Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World

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Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World is written by André Wink and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004729216 (ISBN 10) and 9789004729216 (ISBN 13).

This book provides a new answer to an old and often-asked question: why did the bulk of conversion to Islam take place not in the imperial heartlands of the Indo-Islamic world but among the indigenous populations of the Indus borderlands and the coastal, maritime and insular peripheries of the Indian Ocean and the Malay-Indonesian archipelago? The answer is found in the conjunction of geographical, political and economic factors affecting the Indo-Islamic states of the 13th to 17th centuries, both in their medieval origins and their interaction with the Portuguese Estado da India and the East India Companies.