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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Flood, Finbarr Barry.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Oxford in India readings. Debates in Indian history and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mosques--India--History.

Mosques.

Architecture, Medieval--India.

Architecture, Medieval.

Religion and state--India--History--To 1500.

Religion and state.

History.

India--Religion--1200-1765.

India.

Religion.

India--History--1000-1765.

India--Civilization--1200-1765.

Civilization.

India--Politics and government--997-1765.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

274 pages, 21 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9780195695120

0195695127

OCLC:

229023520