The Ayodhya Temple-Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources
Persian, Arabic and Urdu writers from the seventeenth century to the twentieth on the Bābrī mosque and the Rāma temple at Ayodhya, with texts and translations.
- Language
- English
- Author
- Harsh Narain
- Extent
- 868 passages, 43,983 words
- Text
- complete digital text
- Source
- archive.org · Delhi: Penman Publishers 1993; scan on archive.org, OCR Gemini 3.8 Flash; chapters and sections by Gemini 3.8… · In copyright (Harsh Narain); freely available on archive.org — shown with credit and a link to that copy,…
Contents
- c1 Front matter — 2 parts
- c2 The Ayodhya Temple-Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources — 12 parts
- c3 Preface — 21 parts
- c4 The General Scheme of Transliteration — 3 parts
- c5 Contents — 2 parts
- c6 Chap. 1: The Dispute — 32 parts
- c7 Chap. 2: Literary Evidence: Non-Muslim Sources — 8 parts
- c8 Chap. 3: Literary Evidence: Arabic and Persian Sources — 3 parts
- c9 Chap. 4: Literary Evidence: Urdu Sources — 56 parts
- c10 Chap. 5: Literary Evidence: An Evaluation — 45 parts
- c11 Chap. 6: Architectural, Art-Historical, and Epigraphical Findings — 9 parts
- c12 Chap. 7: Archaeological Finds — 26 parts
- c13 Chap. 8: Evidence of the Tradition — 15 parts
- c14 Chap. 9: Could Bābar Not Have Replaced the Rāma Temple by the Mosque? — 13 parts
- c15 Chap. 10: Was Bābar Too Tolerant to Demolish the Rāma Temple? — 20 parts
- c16 Chap. 11: The Alleged Tolerance-Radiating Testament of Bābar — 47 parts
- c17 Chap. 12: Attempts to Sidetrack, Slight, and Suppress Evidence — 25 parts
- c18 Chap. 13: Verdict of the Sharī'ah — 48 parts
- c19 Chap. 14: Opening Out Historical Wounds? — 11 parts
- c20 Appendix I. Extract from Hakīm 'Abdu 'l-Hayy, Al-Hind-u fī'l-'Ahd-i'l-Islāmiyy — 1 part
- c21 Appendix II. Map of Janmasthan in 1717 A.D. — 4 parts
- c22 Appendix IV. Bābur's Last Testament — 1 part
- c23 Appendix V. The Real Will of Bābar — 2 parts
- c24 Appendix VI. Shāh Jahān's Farmān — 40 parts
- c25 Appendix VII. A Controversy over the Temple-Mosque — 122 parts
- c26 Appendix VIII. A Questionnaire on the Bābarī Mosque — 54 parts
- c27 Bibliography — 41 parts
- c28 Name-Index — 2 parts