Table of Contents

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'

About the Author

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