Title: Moguls, Ottomans, and Pilgrims: Protecting the Routes to Mecca in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Abstract:In response to your overture for peace and amity, my felicitous imperial letter has already been dispatched to you. Recently, reports of your aggression against Muslim pilgrims and merchants coming fr...In response to your overture for peace and amity, my felicitous imperial letter has already been dispatched to you. Recently, reports of your aggression against Muslim pilgrims and merchants coming from India to our territories have reached us ... It is imperative that after receiving my exalted letter you should, in accordance with your desire for peace, immediately stop all atrocities on the Indian pilgrims and traders. If you continue to disturb peace in that region [India], then appropriate steps will be taken against you. Thereafter, it would be too late to negotiate peace. (Suleiman the Magnificent to the King of Portugal) 1Read More
Publication Year: 1988
Publication Date: 1988-05-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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