Akbar Quotes

“Akbar proposed that ‘all religions are either equally true or equally illusory’.”
― Ira Mukhoty, Akbar: The Great Mughal

“Today, in a world fatally fractured along religious lines, it seems inconceivable that in the sixteenth century an emperor worked so hard to promote religious harmony and reverence for all faiths.”
― Ira Mukhoty, Akbar: The Great Mughal

“By 1404, when he returned to Samarkand, Timur had sacked Baghdad and Delhi, marched up to Moscow, overrun Tiflis, Aleppo, and Damascus, and had accepted offers of submission from the Sultan of Egypt and the co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire, and was even contemplating the conquest of China.”
― Ira Mukhoty, Akbar: The Great Mughal

“urged people to learn about others’ religions, so as to dispel intolerant prejudices against each other and develop, instead, a sense of empathy. This, Akbar was convinced, would lead to a spirit of universal peace and active tolerance, which he called sulh kul. All religions, he believed, were either equally true or equally untrue and so deserved equal respect and protection.”
― Ira Mukhoty, Akbar: The Great Mughal

“Rembrandt would be influenced by the luminous paintings of the Mughal court, the world would get its first translation of the Mahabharat into Persian through the Razmnama, and the West would discover the Upanishads through the translations of Dara Shukoh, Akbar’s great-grandson.”
― Ira Mukhoty, Akbar: The Great Mughal

“Humayun though”
― Ira Mukhoty, Akbar: The Great Mughal

“Harkha Bai herself had a profound interest in the region as did her entire family and, as for Salim, Braj was his mother tongue.”
― Ira Mukhoty, Akbar: The Great Mughal

“Akbar raised the minimum age for marriage to sixteen years for boys and fourteen for girls, and instructed the kotwals to establish the ages of the bride and groom before allowing weddings to take place.”
― Ira Mukhoty, Akbar: The Great Mughal

“There was no universal language, Akbar realized, having put the idea to the test.”
― Ira Mukhoty, Akbar: The Great Mughal