TY - BOOK AU - Abul Fazl AU - Thackston, Wheeler M TI - The History of Akbar SN - 9780674980440 U1 - 954.24 FAZ 23 PY - 2018/// CY - England PB - :Harvard University Press KW - History of Asia; Far East-- South Asia; India N2 - Akbarnāma, or The History of Akbar, by Abu'l-Fazl (d. 1602), is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose artistry. Marking a high point in a long, rich tradition of Persian historical writing, it served as a model for historians throughout the Persianate world. The work is at once a biography of the Mughal emperor Akbar (r. 1556-1605) that includes descriptions of his ER -