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Piety and politics in the early Indian mosque /Finbarr Barry Flood

By: Finbarr Barry FloodContributor(s): Finbarr Barry FloodMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: SARAS Books | ;2/31,Ansari Road,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002Series: Oxford in India readings., Debates in Indian history and societyPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press , 2008Description: 274 pages, 21 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN: 9780195695120Subject(s): HistoryGenre/Form: Mosques -- India -- History.DDC classification: 954.02 FLO

Contents:

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 / Mohammad Mujeeb. Architecture of the early Sultanate period and the nature of the Muslim state in India / Fritz Lehmann. Quṭb 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 the early Indo-Islamic Mosque architecture : the case of Ajmīr / Robert Hillenbrand. Indian Islam's lotus throne : Kaman and Khatu Kalan / Michael W. Meister.

Summary: Through a study of the mosques and their interpretative histories at different periods of time, this volume shows the link between past and present. It documents the continuities and ruptures of different early medieval regional rules and the Ghurid state that are reflected in the architectural traditions of the time.

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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 / Mohammad Mujeeb. Architecture of the early Sultanate period and the nature of the Muslim state in India / Fritz Lehmann. Quṭb 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 the early Indo-Islamic Mosque architecture : the case of Ajmīr / Robert Hillenbrand. Indian Islam's lotus throne : Kaman and Khatu Kalan / Michael W. Meister.

Through a study of the mosques and their interpretative histories at different periods of time, this volume shows the link between past and present. It documents the continuities and ruptures of different early medieval regional rules and the Ghurid state that are reflected in the architectural traditions of the time.

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