TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patel,Alka
TI  - Building Communities in Gujarāt: Architecture and Society during the Twelfth through Fourteenth Centuries 
T2  - Brill's Indological Library
SN  - 9789047413752
AV  - NA1507.G9 
U1  - 723/.17/0954 23
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - BRILL
KW  - Architecture, Medieval
KW  - India
KW  - Gujarat
KW  - Islamic architecture
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - The Indo-Islamic architecture subject of this book is not the result of a 'clash of civilizations', but to be seen as innovations of the local architectural tradition, a product of local craft traditions. Alka Patel here brings together two architectural corpora in a careful analysis of the 12th- through 14th-century Islamic ritual buildings of southeastern Sindh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. The new social and ritual demands of Islam led local craftspeople to initiate rejuvenation and expansion of their skills and knowledge. Moreover, the commonality of building practices among "religions" led to the intertwining of various Muslim and non-Muslim communities. The work's analysis of epigraphical evidence will be seminal to reorientations of historical methods investigating interactions among socio-religious groups in the region
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789047413752
ER  -