"Akbar the Great, Emperor of Mughal India" Topic
1 Post
All members in good standing are free to post here. Opinions expressed here are solely those of the posters, and have not been cleared with nor are they endorsed by The Miniatures Page.
Please remember not to make new product announcements on the forum. Our advertisers pay for the privilege of making such announcements.
For more information, see the TMP FAQ.
Back to the 19th Century Discussion Message Board
Areas of Interest19th Century
Featured Hobby News Article
Featured Recent Link
Top-Rated Ruleset
Featured Profile Article
Featured Book Review
|
Tango01 | 05 Jul 2018 10:12 p.m. PST |
"In 1582, King Philip II of Spain received a letter from the Mughal Emperor Akbar of India. Akbar wrote: "As most men are fettered by bonds of tradition, and by imitating ways followed by their fathers… everyone continues, without investigating their arguments and reasons, to follow the religion in which he was born and educated, thus excluding himself from the possibility of ascertaining the truth, which is the noblest aim of the human intellect. Therefore we associate at convenient seasons with learned men of all religions, thus deriving profit from their exquisite discourses and exalted aspirations." [Johnson, 208] Akbar the Great chided Philip for the anti-Protestant excesses of the Spanish Counter-reformation. Spain's Catholic inquisitors had by this time mostly rid the country of Muslims and Jews, so turned their murderous attentions to Protestant Christians instead, particularly in Spanish-ruled Holland…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
|
|