The lecture will cover the life of Zahir-ud-Din Muhammad Babur: his birth in Andijan, the life as a young Mirza of the fragmented TImurid Sultanate, a participant in the Turkic-Persianate norms of the postclassical Muslim world, his homage to the Hanafi way of living, and the founding of a global empire that lingered until the 19th century.
*Mawlana Saaleh* completed his hifz in the Bay Area and is a graduate of Darul Uloom Azaadville. He also earned his bachelor’s at Columbia University, majoring in History.
He is now an Ifta student at Darul Qasim, and a master’s candidate at the University of Chicago, focusing on the late Mughal period, and the rise of colonialism in India. His primary interests are Hanafi legal theory, Indian-Persian poetry, and creative writing.