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Ep 184: Finding Dara Shukoh

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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What Happened at the Court?

The trial of the rashiko is a powerful motive because it transforms a story about seventeenth century india into a narrative about to day. It creates a dialectic between two opposing visions of islam. Islam is zealous extremism, immediately familiar in our present context, and its counterpoint islam as sufi, anti nomianism. The brothers clash is the story that addresses the deepest questions of who we are and how we got here, stop court.

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