1. Ibn Battuta on the steppes and in India
Carl Ernst
Introduction to Islamic Civilization

4. A Mongol princess
Princess Bayulun, third wife of Ozbeg, daughter of Byzantine Emperor ( )
Visit to Constantinople with considerable entourage, seeing the city with a Greek guide
The shrinking importance of Byzantium

5. The route to India Crossing Transoxiana (page 174)
Cities ruined by the Mongols – Bukhara, Balkh (176)
Accumulation of horses
Meeting in Samarkand with Tarmashirin

6. Registan square, Samarkand

7. The Delhi Sultanate -- 1206 Mamluk military slave origins
Conquest of the “Hindu” kingdoms, who became tributaries
Spread of Indo-Persian royal culture and the concept of the Sultanate
Turkish dynasties of Khaljis ( ) and Tughluqs ( )
Conquest of the Deccan plateau

8. 1236

9. Tughluqs (1335)

10. Daulatabad fort in the Deccan

11. Culture of the Delhi Sultanate
Brain drain to the advantage of Delhi – Sufis and Muslim jurists
Persian as official language plus many Indian mother tongues
The riddle of Muhammad ibn Tughluq – generous king, intellectual, tyrant with failed plans and repressive policies
Shifting the capital to Daulatabad
Recruiting foreign scholars

12. Meetings with Sufis Lahari Delta in Sind (193)
Rukn al-Din in Multan (right)

13. Ala’ al-Din Chishti (p. 194)

14. More Sufis Shihab al-Din “the truth-teller” (207)
Kamal al-Din Ghari and a hospice (209)
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