History of Akbar

<p><b>The exemplar of Indo-Persian history at once a biography of Emperor Akbar and a chronicle of sixteenth-century Mughal India.</b> <p/><i>Akbarnāma</i> or <i>The History of Akbar</i> 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 political and martial feats and cultural achievements and a chronicle of sixteenth-century India. <p/>The seventh volume details the twenty-ninth to thirty-eighth years of Akbar's reign including accounts of the marriage of his son and heir Salim (Jahangir); conquests of Swat Orissa Kashmir Sind and the Saurashtra Peninsula; the pacification of Bengal; and the emperor's visits to Kashmir the Punjab and Kabul. <p/>The Persian text presented in the Naskh script is based on a careful reassessment of the primary sources.</p>