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Majma-ul-Bahrain
''Majma-ul-Bahrain'' ( fa, مجمع البحرین, "The Confluence of the Two Seas" or "The Mingling of the Two Oceans") is a book on comparative religion authored by Mughal people, Mughal Shah#Shahzadeh, Shahzada Dara Shukoh as a short treatise in Persian language, Persian, c. 1655. It was devoted to a revelation of the mystical and pluralistic affinities between Sufism, Sufic and Vedanta, Vedantic speculation. It was one of the earliest works to explore both the diversity of religions and a Hindu–Muslim unity, unity of Islam and Hinduism and other religions. Its Hindi version is called ''Samudra Sangam Grantha'' and an Urdu translation titled ''Nūr-i-Ain'' was lithographed in 1872. Background During the 16th century, the ''Maktab Khana'' (translation bureau of Emperor Akbar, literally meaning ''house of translation'') heavily contributed to altering the Muslim perception of Hinduism by translating works such as the ''Mahabharata'' into the ''Razmnāma'' (Persian language, Per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dara Shukoh
Dara Shikoh ( fa, ), also known as Dara Shukoh, (20 March 1615 – 30 August 1659) was the eldest son and heir-apparent of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Dara was designated with the title ''Padshahzada-i-Buzurg Martaba'' ("Prince of High Rank") and was favoured as a successor by his father and his elder sister, Princess Jahanara Begum. In the war of succession which ensued after Shah Jahan's illness in 1657, Dara was defeated by his younger brother Prince Muhiuddin (later, the Emperor Aurangzeb). He was executed in 1659 on Aurangzeb's orders in a bitter struggle for the imperial throne. Dara was a liberal-minded unorthodox Muslim as opposed to the orthodox Aurangzeb; he authored the work '' The Confluence of the Two Seas'', which argues for the harmony of Sufi philosophy in Islam and Vedanta philosophy in Hinduism. A great patron of the arts, he was also more inclined towards philosophy and mysticism rather than military pursuits. The course of the history of the Indian subc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
