Piety and Politics in the Early Indian Mosque
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1st ed.
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ISBN
9780195695120
Length
lxx+274p., Tables; Maps; Notes; Index; 23cm.
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This volume focuses on a series of mosques constructed after north-west India came under the political control of the Ghurid sultanate of Afghanistan in the 1190s. The most famous of the group is the Qutb Mosque in Delhi. The book explores the complex relationship between pre-modern architecture, history, and modern historiography. It brings together divergent voices that have enriched nineteenth- and twentieth-century scholarship on some of the earliest ...
