Finbarr Barry Flood

Piety and Politics in the Early Indian Mosque

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 145mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780195695120
• ISBN-10: 0195695127
• Artikelnr.: 25847891

Autorenporträt

Finbarr Barry Flood is Assistant Professor, Institute of Fine Arts and Department of History, New York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction F.B. Flood; Part I Mercantile Communities and Early Indian
Mosques -Chapter 1 'The Mosque in South Asia: Beginnings' Alka Patel; Part
II Temple, Mosque, and Conquest-Chapter2 'The Idols of Hind' André Wink;
Chapter 3. 'Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States' Richard M. Eaton;
Part III The Qutb Mosque, the first Friday Mosque of Delhi-Chapter 4
Controversy Between J.D. Beglar and Alexander Cunningham regarding the
origins of Qutb Mosque and Qutb Minar; Chapter 5 'The Qutb as a Social
Document' Mohammad Mujeeb; Chapter 6 'Architecture of the Early Sultanate
Period and the Nature of the Muslim State in India' Fritz Lehmann; Chapter
7 'Qutb and Modern Memory' Sunil Kumar; 'Epigraphs, Scripture, and
Architecture in the Early Sultanate of Delhi' Anthony Welch, Hussein
Keshani, & Alexandra Bain; Part IV Early Mosques in Rajasthan-'The
"Two-and-a-Half-Day" Mosque' Michael Meister; 'Political Symbolism in early
Indo-Islamic Mosque Architecture in the case of Ajmir' Robert Hillenbrand;
'Indian Islam's Lotus Throne: Kaman and Khatu Kalan'