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Vol. 3 Issue 6, June 2014, ISSN 2278-0637, PP. 117-125(Special issue on Behavioral, Humanities, and Applied Sciences)
Gurkani Akbar Shah 'S Religious Policies an Explanation
Abdolsamad Bahramzadeh*, Yaghub Panahi**
*
MA student of Islamic History, University of Isfahan
MA in Islamic History, Tarbiat Modares University
**
Abstract
The Gurkanis’ religious vicissitudes were caused by various factors that had been formed under
particular historical settings. These upheavals, especially during Gurkani Akbar Shah’s reign,
highly influenced the Indian society. Among these factors, Akbar Shah’s belief in the unity of
religions is what draws attention the most. There have been given various analyses over Akbar
Shah’s motives in developing such an idea such as establishing a secret mystical society;
playing a political game by means of putting religion as a tool so as to benefit the Indian
people’s ethnical and religious beliefs thus to unify this fragmented society; fighting against the
prejudice of the Sunni clerics and thus achieving the absolute power; or Akbar’s righteous and
admirable behavior which originated from his humanitarian psyche, so on and so forth. This
study aims at evaluating each of these analyses so as to explain meticulously the causes and
impacts of Akbar Shah’s religious policies, and, hence, reach to the ongoing reality of that era in
India.
Keywords: Akbar Shah, religious polices, religious developments, religious tolerance
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