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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. Qutḅ 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.