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- W2892021650 abstract "Catherine B. Asher Delhi's Qutb Complex: The Minar, Mosque and Mehrauli Mumbai: Marg Foundation, 2017, 160 pp., 130 illus. $70, ISBN 9789383243198In Delhi's Qutb Complex: The Minar, Mosque and Mehrauli , Catherine B. Asher presents a longue duree history of one of Delhi's most iconic monuments: the Qutb Minar and its adjoining mosque. This beautifully produced and amply illustrated book also devotes much-needed attention to the many smaller structures that surround the UNESCO-protected site of the Qutb complex in the rapidly developing neighborhood of Mehrauli in South Delhi. Writing for a broad audience, Asher brings together a vast amount of academic literature, covering topics from the origins of the Qutb complex in the late twelfth century to its expansion in the thirteenth century to its subsequent revitalization in the early modern and colonial periods. Mindful of the contemporary controversies surrounding the Qutb complex—particularly the view taken by Hindutva nationalists who point to Hindu elements in the mosque as proof that Islam was established in Delhi through a violent subjugation of indigenous Hindus—she offers a nuanced view of reuse as political strategy rather than religious antagonism in medieval northern India. Nonacademic readers will undoubtedly profit from this thoughtful account of one of Delhi's most historic neighborhoods. Lessons abound too for architectural and urban historians who work on controversial sites and disputed pasts—Asher demonstrates how they can make their scholarship available to a wide audience without compromising rigor or critical analysis.While the book offers many new insights, three themes that run throughout are particularly noteworthy. The first is the Qutb complex as the crossroads of aesthetic vocabularies and craftsmanship, extending from modern-day Iran to the eastern and southern tip of the Indian Mughal Empire and also incorporating Victorian fashions of architecture and landscape. This analysis does much to complicate the long-standing, if not entirely accurate, perspective that the Qutb complex originated in a violent clash between invading Muslim …" @default.
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- W2892021650 title "Review: Delhi's Qutb Complex: The Minar, Mosque and Mehrauli, by Catherine B. Asher" @default.
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