The Mughal Synthesis and Its Collapse: Akbar's Din-e-Ilahi, Dara Shikoh's Majmaʿ al-Bahrayn, and Aurangzeb's Ba'alist Capture of the Indus Batin (933–1118 AH / 1526–1707 CE)

SCRA Indus Basin Studies Series No. 3. The Mughal period (933-1274 AH / 1526-1857 CE) examined as a three-act civilizational drama on the Indus basin. Act I: the Timurid-Safavid-Sufi inheritance -- Babur's Timurid formation, Humayun's fifteen-year Safavid immersion, and the Chishti silsila as the indigenous walayah substrate. Act II: the zahir-batin synthesis at its apex -- Akbar's Din-e-Ilahi (990 AH / 1582 CE) as the first state-level attempt at a zahir-batin governance doctrine on the Indus;