Al-Hind, Volume 2 Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries

During the early medieval Islamic expansion in the seventh to eleventh centuries, al—Hind (India and its Indianized hinterland) was characterized by two organizational modes: the long—distance trade and mobile wealth of the peripheral frontier states, and the settled agriculture of the heartland. These two different types of social, economic, and political organization were successfully fused during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, and India became the hub of world trade. During this p...