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S2E11: Qutb Minar and Islam in India

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A New Approach to Understanding History of Mediaeval India

A more appropriate history ofa the friday mosque at the kutub complex ought to include the stories of baha dintugril and his mosque at baana. It should also take into account the story of the sufi batiar kaki and of nezaba din alia. Their relation to the mosque is arguably as integral to the character of the mosque as that of kutobu din aibag or his olama. Something luminous was happening here. Comer was makinga an academic and a popular point at the same time. At the academy level, he had been offering a historiographical point. He was calling attention to a new type of

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