Stephen Frederic Dale, also known as Stephen F. Dale, is a historian and academic, Emeritus Professor at the

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, known for his studies on eastern Islamic world (southern and central Asia).Freitag, Sandria B. ''The Journal of Asian Studies'', vol. 42, no. 2, 1983, pp. 432–434. ''JSTOR'', www.jstor.org/stable/2055149. Dale studied at

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and graduated from

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. He previously taught at the Universities of Chicago and

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. He first visited India in the 1963 as a Fulbright Lecturer at the

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. He returned to India in the 1967 to carry out research on the Muslims of

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Bibliography

* ''Islamic Society on the South Asian Frontier: The Mappilas of Malabar'' (1980) *''Indian Merchants and Eurasian Trade'

(1994) *''The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Babur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India'

(2004) *''The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals'

(2014) * ''The Orange Trees of Marrakesh: Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man'

(2015) *''Babur: Timurid Prince and Mughal Emperor'

(2018)

References

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