Author Munis D Faruqui’s biography depicts Aurangzeb as a pragmatic, Islam-inflected ruler rather than a religious ideologue.

An excerpt from ‘Aurangzeb Alamgir and the Mughal Empire: A History Retold’, by Munis D. Faruqui.

Munis D Faruqui’s volume is not concerned with absolving the last powerful Mughal or condemning him but with restoring him to the world in which he operated