The first part of the long-awaited fourth volume of André Wink’s monu­mental Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World introduces a new perspective on the rise of the dynasty of the Great Mughals and the transition of the Indo-Islamic world from the medieval to the early modern centuries. Eschewing the conventional military and technological explanations, the book adopts an institutional explanation that emphasizes the Central and Inner Asian post-nomadic heritage of the dynasty and, in the context of persistent rivalry with the Indo-Afghans, its successful politics of incorporation and accommodation of Muslim and non-Muslim constituencies alike. About the Author André Wink, Ph.D. Leiden (1984), is H. Kern Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to that, he taught and lectured at numerous universities in the USA, Europe and Asia, and was a fellow/ member at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, and the Institute for Research in the Humanities. He is the author of Land and Sovereignty in India (1986), Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volumes I-III (1990-2004), Akbar (2008), and other works, many of which have been translated into Arabic, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and other major languages.