The Dig: Before the West w/ Ayşe Zarakol
Jacobin Radio
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The Inverse Relationship Between Authoritarianism and Religious Pluralism
Akbar encouraged debate among scholars of different faiths. He put at least two moslem jurists to death, clearly asserting his authority over them. It's fascinating, this inverse relationship between centralized sovereignty in the hands of the sovereign and religious homognization on the other. So a the height of mugal centralized power, likewise, there's more religious pluralism.
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