A Christmas meditation: What Muslims and Christians share

Islamic nativity scene of Jesus' birth, ca. 1720 (photo: National Museum, New Delhi)
Scholars are only now beginning to realise the extent to which the Mughal emperors adopted what most would assume to be outrightly Christian devotions, writes British historian William Dalrymple.

Scholars are only now beginning to realise the extent to which the Mughal emperors adopted what most would assume to be outrightly Christian devotions, writes British historian William Dalrymple.