Duarte Barbosa citations

Duarte Barbosa est un écrivain et un officier de l'Inde portugaise, entre 1500 et 1516. Il était écrivain dans un établissement de Cannanore et un interprète du malayalam. En 1516 , il écrit un Livro , le premier exemple de littérature de voyage en portugais, rédigé peu après son arrivée dans l'océan Indien. En 1519, il embarque sur la première circumnavigation dirigée par son beau-frère Fernand de Magellan. Il meurt en 1521 lors de la fête du rajah de Cebu, Humabon.

✵ 1480 – 1545

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“[The Vijayanagar kings allowed] that every man may come and go, and live according to his own creed without suffering any annoyance, and without enquiring whether he is a Christian, Jew, Moor or Heathen. Great equity and justice is observed by all.”

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The Book of Duarte Barbosa, vol. I, p. 202. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1999). Theory and practice of Muslim state in India. New Delhi: Aditya Prakashan. Chapter 2

“It is obviously an advantage in the sixteenth century Bengal to be a Moor, in as much as the Hindus daily become Moors to gain the favour of their rulers.”

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Barbosa, The Book of Duarte Barbosa, II, p.148. quoted from Lal, K. S. (1990). Indian muslims: Who are they.

“The enthusiastic soldiers, who, in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, spread the faith of Islam among the timid race of Bengal, made forcible conversions by the sword, and, penetrating the dense forests of the Eastern frontier, planted the crescent in the villages of Sylhet. Tradition still preserves the names of Adam Shahid, Shah Halal Mujarrad, and Karmfarma Sahib, as three of the most successful of these enthusiasts.”

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Quoted from Lal, K. S. (1990). Indian muslims: Who are they.
The Book of Duarte Barbosa

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