He is editor of The Cambridge History of Iran, volume 6 (1986), and translator and joint editor of The Mission of Friar William of Rubruck (1990). is Senior Lecturer in the Department of History at Keele University. Students of Islamic and South Asian history, and those with a general interest in the region, will find it a valuable resource. As a comprehensive treatment of the political history of this period, the book will make a significant contribution to the literature on medieval Indo-Muslim history. While the book focuses on military and political affairs, tracing the Sultanate's expansion, its resistance to formidable Mongol invasions from the northwest and the administrative developments that underpinned these exploits, it also explores the Sultans' relations with their non-Muslim subjects. During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, the Sultanate was the principal bastion of Islam in the subcontinent. In broad-ranging and accessible arrative, Peter Jackson traces the history of the Sultanate from its foundation in 1210 to its demise in around 1400 following the sack of Delhi by the Central Asian conqueror, Temur (Tamerlane). ~The Delhi Sultanate A Political and Military History The Delhi Sultanate was the first Islamic state to be established in India.
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