The Ayodhya Temple-Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources c5: Contents
The Ayodhya Temple-Mosque Dispute: Focus on Muslim Sources c5
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Contents
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| Preface | | vii |
| Scheme of Transliteration | | xiii |
| Chap. 1 : | The Dispute | 1 |
| Chap. 2 : | Literary Evidence : Non-Muslim Sources | 7 |
| Chap. 3 : | Literary Evidence : Arabic and Persian Sources | 16 |
| Chap. 4 : | Literary Evidence : Urdu Sources | 27 |
| Chap. 5 : | Literary Evidence : An Evaluation | 38 |
| Chap. 6 : | Architectural, Art-Historical, and Epigraphical Findings | 46 |
| Chap. 7 : | Archaeological Finds | 48 |
| Chap. 8 : | Evidence of the Tradition | 54 |
| Chap. 9 : | Could Bābar not have Replaced the Rāma Temple by the Mosque ? | 58 |
| Chap. 10: | Was Bābar too Tolerant to Demolish the Rāma Temple ? | 62 |
| Chap. 11: | The Alleged Tolerance-Radiating Testament of Bābar 65 | |
| Chap. 12: | Attempts to Sidetrack, Slight, and Suppress Evidence | 72 |
| Chap. 13 : | Verdict of the Sharī'ah | 79 |
| Chap. 14 : | Opening out Historical Wounds ? | 87 |
| Appendices | | |
| I. | Extract from Hakīm 'Abdu 'l Hayy, *Al-Hind-u fī'l-'ahd-i'l-Islāmiyy* | 90 |
| II. | Map of Janmasthān in 1717 A.D. (Kapad-Dwār Collection of the S.M.S.-II, City Palace Museum, Jaipur) | 91 |
| III. | Sketch of the Rāma Janmabhūmi at Ayodhya, 1889 | 92 |
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| IV. | Bābar's Last Testament | 93 |
| V. | The Real Will of Bābar | 94 |
| VI. | Shāh Jahān's Farmān | 95 |
| VII. | A Controversy over the Temple-Mosque | 102 |
| VIII. | A Questionnaire on the Bābarī Mosque | 126 |
| Bibliography | | 140 |
| Name-Index | | 148 |