Adil Rasheed’s Research Paper ‘Akbar’s Statecraft based on Aristotle’s Ethics & AI-Tusi’s Doctrine of Love’ Published in Journal of Peace Studies
August 4, 2025
Research Fellow, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Dr Adil Rasheed’s peer-reviewed research paper ‘Akbar’s Statecraft based on Aristotle’s Ethics & AI-Tusi’s Doctrine of Love’ has been published in Journal of Peace Studies (VOLUME 32, ISSUE 2, APRIL – JUNE, 2025).
The main proposition in the research paper is that Akbar’s state-building and statecraft was inspired by Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Vedanta philosophy and Al-Tusi’s Akhlaq-i-Nasiri, an eclectic mix evident in the polity, state architecture and the socio-cultural ethos that the Mughal ruler created.
