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New dawn in Mughal India: longue durée Neoplatonism in the making of Akbar’s Sun project
sun worship. Although Akbar’s sun project may have been triggered by contemporary Hindu and
Zoroastrian ideas and practices, we argue that Akbar’s Neoplatonic advisers reframed it as a universal
cosmotheistic tradition that, at the start of the new millennium, served as the perfect all-inclusive
imperial ideology of Akbar’s new world order. The astonishing parallels with the much earlier
Neoplatonic sun cult of Roman Emperor Julian demonstrate that, although having characteristic of
its own, Akbar’s sun project was not that unique and should be seen as a fascinating late example of
a so-far completely forgotten ancient Neoplatonic legacy of seeing the philosopher king, via the Sun,
via illumination, connected to the One.
- All authors
- Gommans, J.J.L.; Huseini, S.R.
- Date
- 2024-04-02
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 455 - 476