In this article, we explore the longue durée philosophical background of Mughal Emperor Akbar's sun worship. Although Akbar's sun project may have been triggered by contemporary Hindu and Zoroastrian ideas and practices, we argue that Akbar's Neoplatonic advisers reframed it as a universal cosmotheistic tradition that, at the start of the new millennium, served as the perfect all-inclusive imperial ideology of Akbar's new world order. The astonishing parallels with the much earlier Neoplatonic sun cult of Roman Emperor Julian demonstrate that, although having characteristic of its own, Akbar's sun project was not that unique and should be seen as a fascinating late example of a so-far completely forgotten ancient Neoplatonic legacy of seeing the philosopher king, via the Sun, via illumination, connected to the One.

在本文中，我们探讨了莫卧儿皇帝阿克巴太阳崇拜的长期哲学背景。尽管阿克巴的太阳计划可能是由当代印度教和琐罗亚斯德教的思想和实践引发的，但我们认为，阿克巴的新柏拉图主义顾问将其重新定义为一种普遍的宇宙神论传统，在新千年之初，它成为完美的包罗万象的帝国意识形态。阿克巴的新世界秩序。与罗马皇帝朱利安的更早的新柏拉图太阳崇拜惊人的相似之处表明，尽管阿克巴的太阳计划有自己的特点，但它并不是那么独特，应该被视为迄今为止完全被遗忘的古代新柏拉图遗产的一个令人着迷的晚期例子通过太阳，通过照明，看到哲学家国王，与“一”相连。