Akbar

Akbar (1542-1605; reigned 1556-1605) was the third, and arguably the greatest, Mughal emperor. He succeeded his father Humayun at the age of thirteen, and achieved early success as a general, defeating threats to the empire from rival Moslem and Hindu states. Although illiterate, he was a cultured and learned man, with a lively and enquiring mind. He sought a synthesis of religions: at the city of Fatehpur Sikri which ha created in the arid land west of Agra,