Tuhfat Al Mujahidin: A Historical Epic of the Sixteenth Century

First written in Arabic in the late sixteenth century, Tuhfath AlMujahidin is a pioneering historical work on the struggles of the Malabar Muslims against the Portuguese colonisers’ encroachment in India, and the rise of Malabar as a medieval naval force under the Zamorin of Calicut. This translation is extensively annotated with more than 200 notes explaining local backgrounds and clearly identifying the names mentioned in the original Arabic work.