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Piety and politics in the early Indian mosque

Piety and politics in the early Indian mosque
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ISBN 0195695127 (hbk.)
9780195695120 (hbk.)
Title Piety and politics in the early Indian mosque / edited by Finbarr Barry Flood
Publisher New Delhi : Oxford, 2008
Physical desc. lxviii, 274 p., [21] p. of plates ; ill. (b&w), maps, plans ; 23 cm.
Series Oxford in India readings. Debates in Indian history and society
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Finbarr Barry Flood -- Mercantile communities and early mosques. The mosque in South Asia: beginnings / Alka Patel -- Temple, mosque, and conquest. The idols of Hind / André Wink -- Temple desecration and Indo-Muslim states / Richard M. Eaton -- The Qutb Mosque, the first Friday mosque of Delhi. The origins of the Qutb Mosque and Qutb Minar: a nineteenth-century controversy / debate between Alexander Cunningham and J.D. Beglar -- The Qutb complex as a social document / Mohammed Mujeeb -- Architecture of the early sultanate period and the nature of the Muslim state in India / Fritz Lehmann -- Qutb and modern memory / Sunil Kumar -- Epigraphs, scripture, and architecture in the early Delhi sultanate / Anthony Welch, Hussein Keshani, and Alexandra Bain -- Early mosques in Rajasthan. The 'two-and-a-half-day' mosque / Michael W. Meister -- Political symbolism in early Indo-Islamic mosque architecture: the case of Ajmir / Robert Hillenbrand -- Indian Islam's lotus throne: Kaman and Khatu Kalan / Michael W. Meister.
Subject Mosques -- Political aspects -- India -- History
Architecture and state -- India -- History
India -- History -- 1000-1526
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