Title & Author:

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

Publication:

New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Description:

lxviii, 274 pages, 21 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Series:

Oxford in India readings. Debates in Indian history and society

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction, F.B. Flood -- Part I Mercantile Communities and Early Indian Mosques -- 1. 'The Mosque in South Asia: Beginnings', Alka Patel -- Part II Temple, Mosque, and Conquest -- 2. 'The Idols of Hind', Andre Wink -- 3. 'Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States', Richard M. Eaton -- Part III The Qutb Mosque, the first Friday Mosque of Delhi -- 4. Controversy Between J.D. Beglar and Alexander Cunningham regarding the origins of Qutb Mosque and Qutb Minar -- 5. 'The Qutb as a Social Document', Mohammad Mujeeb -- 6. 'Architecture of the Early Sultanate Period and the Nature of the Muslim State in India', Fritz Lehmann -- 7. 'Qutb and Modern Memory', Sunil Kumar -- 8. 'Epigraphs, Scripture, and Architecture in the Early Sultanate of Delhi', Anthony Welch, Hussein Keshani, & Alexandra Bain -- Part IV Early Mosques in Rajasthan -- 9. 'The "Two-and-a-Half-Day" Mosque', Michael Meister -- 10. 'Political Symbolism in early Indo-Islamic Mosque Architecture in the case of Ajmir', Robert Hillenbrand; -- 11. 'Indian Islam's Lotus Throne: Kaman and Khatu Kalan'

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780195695120 (hardcover)
0195695127 (hardcover)

Subject:

Mosques Political aspects India History.
Architecture and state India History.
Architecture Politique gouvernementale Inde Histoire.
Architecture and state.
India History 1000-1526.
Inde Histoire 1000-1526.
India.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Flood, Finbarr Barry.
Oxford in India readings. Debates in Indian history and society.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 262530
Call No.: BIB 193656
Status: Available