Factors in Leadership: The Social and the Individual

Factors in Leadership: The Social and the Individual Muslims much more than what he unsuccessfully tried to do through politics and war. Had Aurangzeb travelled to Europe, instead of spending years fighting wars in the Deccan, he would have realised that what he was doing was totally against the demands of his times. He sought to establish, to his way of thinking, the supremacy of Islam through the ‘politics of the sword’. He was unaware of the new age which had already dawned—and which would soon arrive in India, too—when the ‘politics of knowledge’ would become a powerful means of establishing the dominance of a community. It appears that Aurangzeb and other Ulama of his age were probably unaware of not only the intellectual and scientific developments that were taking place in Europe at that time, but strangely enough, they were also unaware of the progress that the Muslims had made in this regard during their rule in Spain from the early 8th to the late 15th century. When the Muslim rule collapsed in Spain, many Spanish Muslim scholars and scientists left for other lands. At that time, an influential Muslim Caliphate (1300-1924) ruled over Turkey. Some Muslim scientists, fleeing Spain, headed for Turkey, but they received no support in the royal court. Not long after