Akbar was much more than a conqueror, he was a man who saw internal struggles in a multicultural empire and resolved them.

Early on, he recognized his empire’s key weakness: a small group of Muslims was attempting to rule a vast population of Hindus, whom Muslims had been sacking, pillaging, looting, and killing since the days of Sultan Mahmud the Ghaznavid, some five centuries earlier.  Akbar attacked this flaw with a principle he called sulahkul, “universal tolerance”.  To prove his sincerity, he married a Hindu princess and declared his first son heir 

More on this later….some positive light….

http://www.tangle.com/view_video?viewkey=0861ff3eabea1ceb73e4

See the following:

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The main purpose of the Qur’«n is to awaken in man the higher consciousness of his manifold relations with God and the universe. It is in view of this essential aspect of the Quranic teaching that Goethe, while making a general review of Islam as an educational force, said to Eckermann: ‘You see this teaching never fails; with all our systems, we cannot go, and generally speaking no man can go, farther than that.’20 The problem of Islam was really suggested by the mutual conflict, and at the same time mutual attraction, presented by the two forces of religion and civilization. The same problem confronted early Christianity. The great point in Christianity is the search for an independent content for spiritual life which, according to the insight of its founder, could be elevated, not by the forces of a world external to the soul of man, but by the revelation of a new world within his soul. Islam fully agrees with this insight and supplements it by the further insight that the illumination of the new world thus revealed is not something foreign to the world of matter but permeates it through and through.”

Ramadan Kareem

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Who is Mehnaz M. Afridi?

Mehnaz M. Afridi has a B.A. and MA in Religious Studies from Syracuse University and has studied at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Her PhD was on “Mahfouz and Modern Islamic Identity” from the University of South Africa in Religious Studies.  She has a deep interest in Judaism and Modern Jewish Diaspora, and Secular Islamic Identity. Her recent research projects are focused on Genocide, Europe and Islam, Muslims and Jews in Italian culture; she has taught in Rome and participated in a seminar sponsored by the National Endowment of Humanities on “Jews, and Italian Culture” in Venice, Italy.  She has recently published an article on “Sacred Tropes: The Qur’an Cruel or Compassionate” published by Brill.  Her book project that she is currently working on is “Shoah through Muslim Eyes” a Muslim woman’s journey.

Professor Afridi is very committed to non-profit work in the areas of women and Islam, Jewish-Muslim Relations, and Pakistani girls and development.  She is on the board and committees of the Arava Institute, Wise Women, Levantine Cultural Center, Rauol Wallenberg Institute, and International Education and Welfare Society.

She is currently teaching Islam and Judaism, Cultural Diversity, Genocide Studies and Humanities at Antioch University and National University. 

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