Writing the Mughal World by Muzaffar Alam & Sanjay Subrahmanyam

Author:Muzaffar Alam & Sanjay Subrahmanyam [Alam, Muzaffar & Subrahmanyam, Sanjay]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History/Asia/General
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2011-08-29T18:30:00+00:00

As we know, nothing resulted from this mission, and a few years later the Bijapur Sultanate and the Portuguese resumed hostile relations, with ‘Ali ‘Adil Shah attempting to recapture Goa from the Portuguese in the late 1560s and early 1570s. But the problem remains: what was the significance of these ‘fatuous questions’, particularly since it is evident that Gonçalo Rodrigues could make no sense of them? Clearly, the Jesuit, who must have been schooled in the usual business of debating other religions in a public setting, was caught on the wrong foot. Rather than going over the usual ground—the divinity of Christ, the nature of the Trinity, the prophethood of Muhammad, the revealed nature of the Qur’an—here was something else. Perhaps ‘Ali ‘Adil Shah was being naïve, but then perhaps he was not. All the questions he asked do indeed make perfect sense, when taken at a variety of registers. Here is a possible reading of them.

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