ID | 157616 |
Title Proper | Akbar’s interreligious dialogue, post-secularism and global intellectual history |
Language | ENG |
Author | Sheikh, Md. Ziaul Haque |
Summary / Abstract (Note) | Samuel Moyn and Andrew Sartori depict a conceptual map of a range of possible approaches and ways in which Global Intellectual History (GIH) can be formulated as an academic discipline. Various scholars from different fields propose to widen its scope and boundaries - from trans-local and westerncentric to intra-regional, trans-continental, trans-national and even beyond the geographical designation. In this writing, an attempt has been made to bring the idea of “Suhl-i-kul”, a state sponsored ‘interreligious-dialogue’ initiated by Akbar (1556-1605), a mediaeval Mughal emperor of India, as a content of GIH. This study assumes that the concept of “Suhl-i-kul” can be matched with the idea of ‘post-secularism’ which demands that such concept can create a trans-religious global formation and contribute to establish a peaceful society in a religiously pluralist world, especially from the perspective of multi-religious South Asia. |
`In' analytical Note | BIISS Journal Vol. 37, No.4; Oct 2016: p.363-376 |
Journal Source | BIISS Journal 2016-12 37, 4 |
Key Words | South Asia ; Interreligious Dialogue ; Akbar ; Global Intellectual History ; Multi Religious |