Travellers in the Golden Realm book launch
with Lubaaba Al-Azami
When the first English travellers in India encountered an unimaginable superpower, their meetings would change the world.
In Travellers in the Golden Realm, Lubaaba Al-Azami draws on rich, original sources to trace the origins of a relationship between two nations – one outsider and one superpower – whose cultures remain inextricably linked to this day.
Join us at Manchester Museum for the launch of this new book and for a chance to meet Lubaaba, author and cultural historian specialising in the Global Renaissance.
She is Lecturer in Shakespeare and Early Modern Literature at the University of Manchester and a research fellow at the University of Liverpool. She is also Founding Editor of Medieval and Early Modern Orients (MEMOs, memorients.com), a leading digital platform on premodern interactions between England and the Islamic Worlds.
Copies of Travellers in the Golden Realm can be bought in the shop in advance or on the day.
Travellers in the Golden Realm by Lubaaba Al-Azami was recently reviewed with four stars by the Telegraph, who describe the book as:
“[an] illuminating and engrossing history of the relationship between England and India under the rule of the Mughals during the 16th and 17th centuries”