The History of Akbar Volume 5

Akbarnāma or The History of Akbar by Abu’l-Fazl (d. 1602) is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose artistry. Marking a high point in a long rich tradition of Persian historical writing it served as a model for historians across the Persianate world. The work is at once a biography of the Mughal emperor Akbar (r. 1556–1605) that includes descriptions of his political and martial feats and cultural achievements and a chronicle of sixteenth-century India. The fifth volume details the bellicose seventeenth to twenty-second years of Akbar’s reign including accounts of the conquest of Gujarat the capture of Rohtas fort from rebel Afghans and the invasions of Patna and Bengal. The Persian text presented in the Naskh script is based on a careful reassessment of the primary sources.