The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (606 page)

 
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(Arab., ‘abode of Islam’). Territories within the Muslim ’umma's supremacy and in which Islamic law prevails. (Not to be confused with
DARUL ISLAM
.)

 
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(Arab., ‘abode of the Truce’). Non-Islamic territories no longer hostile but having a treaty agreement with the adjoining Muslim state, to which they pay tribute.

 
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(1615–59).
Muslim heir-apparent of Sh
h Jah
n, who sought common ground between Hinduism and Islam. He regarded the two religions as ‘the confluence of two oceans’ (Qur’
n 18. 65): his views issued in
Majma‘ al-Bahrayn
(‘Mingling of the Two Oceans’, 1655). He also believed that the
Upani
ads
were ‘the book that is hidden’ (56. 78). As a result he began to translate Upani
ads into Persian, in a work issuing in
Sirr-i Akbar
(‘The Great Secret’, 1657)—a work which, when translated into French by Anquetil Duperron (1801–2), had a great influence on European (e.g. Schopenhauer) attitudes to the East.