Stephen F DaleStephen F. Dale is Emeritus Professor of South Asian and Islamic History and Distinguished University Scholar at the Ohio State University. He is the author of Islamic Society on the South Asian Frontier: The Mappilas of Malabar 1498-1922 (1980), Indan Merchants and Eurasian Trade, 1600-1750 (Cambridge, 2002), The Garden of the Eight Paradises: Babur and the Culture of Empire in Central Asia, Afghanistan and India (1483-1530) (2012), The Muslim Empires of the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals (Cambridge, 2009) and The Orange Trees of Marrakesh: Ibn Khaldun and the Science of Man (2015). Read More Read Less