Main entry:

Patel, Alka.

Title & Author:

Building communities in Gujarāt : architecture and society during the twelfth through fourteenth centuries / by Alka Patel.

Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Description:

xx, 209 pages, 73 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Series:

Brill's Indological library, 0925-2916 ; v. 22

Notes:
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Harvard University, 2000).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-205) and index.
Foreword / Peter Gottschalk -- Ch. 1. The contours of examination -- Ch. 2. Integrating the buildings and communities of Gujarat and western India -- Ch. 3. The Maru-Gurjara style as a source for the Islamic ritual buildings in western India -- Ch. 4. The Maru-Gurjara style in buildings of Islamic worship -- Ch. 5. Islamic ritual buildings of Gujarat and its vicinity of the fourteenth century -- Ch. 6. Conclusions and future directions.

Summary:

Focusing on the era spanning the mid-12th through the 14th centuries, Patel examines the architectural styles of non-Muslim temples and Muslim mosques in Gujarat, finding in them a distinct, shared regional style that belies narratives of Hindu/Muslim dichotomies. Basing her argument on the epigraphic evidence, she also contends that the development of a shared building style helped lead to the social construction of communities in which Muslims and non-Muslims interacted in many ways not generally acknowledged by those who focus on religious difference.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9004138900 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9789004138902 (hardback ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Islamic architecture India Gujarat.
Architecture, Medieval India Gujarat.
Islam Relations Hinduism.
Hinduism Relations Islam.
Architecture islamique Inde Gujarāt.
Architecture médiévale Inde Gujarāt.
Architecture, Medieval
Hinduism
Interfaith relations
Islam
Islamic architecture
Social conditions
Islamische Architektur
Islamic architecture India Gujarat History.
Geschichte 1200-1500.
Gujarat (India) Social conditions.
Gujarāt (Inde) Conditions sociales.
India Gujarat
Gujarat

Form/genre:

Theses.

Added entries:

Brill's Indological library ; v. 22.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232084
Call No.: NA1507.G9 P3 2004
Status: Available