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“Instead of bringing credit, the Ibadat Khana brought growing discredit to Akbar.” Comment.

  • UPSC 2024
  • Akbar

The Ibadat Khana's reputation genuinely deteriorated between its founding in 1575 and its effective closure around 1581-82, but whether that deterioration should be read as discrediting Akbar or as the necessary, if messy, birth-pang of Sulh-i-kul is a separate question the sources leave open to argument.

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  • The Respectable Beginning: Intra-Sunni Theological Debate
  • The Descent: Opening to Heterodoxy and Unseemly Quarrels
  • Orthodox Chroniclers' Hostile Verdict, Written After the Fact
  • The Counter-Argument: Foundational Rather Than Discrediting
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