Mansura Haidar (Ed.)

Professor Mansura Haidar, former Chairperson, Department of History; Coordinator, Centre of Advanced Studies in History; and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Aligarh Muslim University, dedicated her life exclusively to the study, teaching and research in the sphere of Indo-Central and West Asia, Turco-Islamic and Eurasian History and Culture. Being well-versed and proficient in several relevant languages of the area of her choice, and having undertaken painstaking research work in the best libraries of the world, the author has so far contributed over 200 articles published in reputed national and international journals and scholarly productions in different languages. She has authored thirteen books in addition to having edited three. She is presently associated with the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi as Advisor and In-charge, Central and West Asian Unit.