Building Communities in Gujarāt - Architecture and Society During the Twelfth Through Fourteenth Centuries

This work analyzes the Islamic ritual buildings of western India as innovations of the local architectural tradition. These buildings themselves forged new senses of community, initiating processes of social integration and redefinition among Muslim and non-Muslim groups in the region.

About the author

Alka Patel, Ph.D. (2000) in History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, is currently Senior Fellow with the American Institute of Indian Studies, conducting fieldwork toward her next book, The Ghurid Architecture of Northern India and Historiography at the Ends of the Islamic World.

Product details

• Authors: Alka Patel
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2004
• EAN: 9789004138902
• ISBN: 978-90-04-13890-2
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 166 mm x 244 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Series: Brill's Indological Library
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries