![]() ![]() ![]() It is interspersed with memories and accounts of the two people Akbar was very close to,his wife Salima Sultan Begum and his teacher Mir Abdul Latif. The book is organised as a series of letters by Akbar to his son Salim who would ascend the throne as Jahangir. ![]() Given that Collier lives in Europe,which has developed a violent antipathy to Islam,his achievement is even more singular. Not only has Collier managed an extremely balanced,historically accurate and engaging novel on the famous ruler,he has also written a book deeply engaged with Islam and with the righteous notes of the Islamic past. The work is an outstanding and deep act of empathy. This discovery resulted in a growing obsession until he abandoned the Goa project and chose to write a book on the life of the great emperor. He had set out to write an account of the Portuguese Inquisition of Goa and accidentally discovered that the then great Mughal,one Echber,had invited as many as three Jesuit missions to Agra to have discourses with them on Christianity. ![]() This is Belgian Dirk Colliers first novel. The Emperors Writings: Memories of Akbar the Great ![]()
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