| Summary/Abstract |
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.
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