Search

Your search for 'dc_creator:( "Dale, Stephen F." ) OR dc_contributor:( "Dale, Stephen F." )' returned 3 results. Modify search

Sort Results by Relevance | Newest titles first | Oldest titles first

Bābur

(3,962 words)

Author(s): Dale, Stephen F.
Bābur (Old Pers. “tiger” or “leopard”), Zaḥīr al-Dīn Muḥammad (886–937/1483–1530), was the founder of the Tīmūrid-Mughal empire of India and the author of one of the world's richest autobiographical memoirs. He was a patrilineal Tīmūrid and matrilineal Chingīzid born on 6 Muharram 886/14 February 1483 in his father's Tīmūrid appanage of Farghāna, the rich alluvial valley of the Syr Darya located east-southeast of Tashkent. Bābur was raised an orthodox Sunnī Muslim in a region where Ḥanafī Sunnī …
Date: 2021-07-19

Arcot

(1,406 words)

Author(s): Dale, Stephen F.
Arcot is a town located on the Palar River in southeastern India, west-southwest of Chennai, formerly Madras. The name Arcot (Ārkāt) is thought to be derived from the Tamil Ārkkad (“six forests”). First mentioned by Ptolemy as “Arkatos,” the town or village is mentioned in the Tamil sources of the Chola dynasty era (third/ninth to seventh/thirteenth centuries) as the site of a significant fortress. It was not until the late Mughal period (twelfth/eighteenth century), however, that Arcot became a notable politica…
Date: 2021-07-19

Chāndnī Chawk

(519 words)

Author(s): Dale, Stephen F.
Chāndnī Chawk (“moonlight market,” in Urdu/Hindi) is the original name of the Bagdādī octagonal market in Shāhjahānābād (Old Delhi). It is west of the Red Fort, approximately two-thirds of the way between the fort’s Lāhawrī Darwāza (Lahore gate) and the Fataḥpūrī Masjid, the mosque of Fataḥpūr Begam (b. 1008/1599), a wife of Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān (r. 1037–68/1628–57). The name Chāndī Chawk was also given to the elaborate gardens just north of Chāndnī Chawk. Jahānārā Begam (d.1092/1681), Shāh …
Date: 2021-07-19