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I review Azfar Moin's 2012 book, The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam. I summarize the book's contents and draw out its major contributions to thinking about religious aspects of Islamic kingship, drawing on a diversity of historical sources, and comparing Mughal India with Safavid Iran.

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This page is a summary of: A. Azfar Moin, The Millennial Sovereign: Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam, South Asia Across the Disciplines (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012). Pp. 368. $55.00 cloth, $28.00 paper., International Journal of Middle East Studies, October 2014, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0020743814001147.
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