Renaissance · South Asia · Religion
1575
Akbar Founds the Ibadat Khana
1575
At Fatehpur Sikri, Akbar opened the Ibadat Khana, a House of Worship where he invited Muslim theologians, Hindu brahmins, Jain monks, Zoroastrians, and eventually Jesuit fathers to debate religion before him late into the night. The emperor took copious notes and drifted further from orthodox Sunni Islam. Debates sometimes deteriorated into shouting matches, convincing Akbar that no single tradition possessed a monopoly on truth.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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