When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. Zahiru’d-din Muhammad Babur (1483-1530), a descendant of Genghis Khan, was a warlord from Central ...

This plate, depicting a banquet being prepared for Babur and his relatives, is one of 143 miniatures in a 1590 illustrated version of The Babur-nama. British Library / Alamy Zahiru’d-din Muhammad ...

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Muqarnas is sponsored by The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The program is dedicated to the ...

Except in the corridors of power in New Delhi—where his name is anathema to the Hindu nationalist government—it’s hard to find anything but esteem for Zahirud-din Muhammad Babur, a man remembered in ...

Babur is often and incorrectly remembered as the "founder of the Mughal Empire," yet his own writings reveal a far more complex and contested legacy. Aabhas Maldahiyar’s second book continues to ...

Around 400 years after the picturesque Battle of Tarain, a major clash unfolded between Prithviraj Chauhan, the early medieval Chauhan dynasty king, and the Ghurid monarch, Mohammad Ghori. This battle ...

It has always been a point of concern that of the seven times Lahore has been destroyed, just why did Babur do it the last time in January 1524. This was after he had met Guru Nanak who advised him ...

The eight-episode series is based on Alex Rutherford’s bestselling “Empire of the Moghuls” novels, a racy, fictionalized version of the history of the Moghul empire, which dominated South Asia from ...