Introduction, F.B. Flood
Part I Mercantile Communities and Early Indian Mosques
1. 'The Mosque in South Asia: Beginnings', Alka Patel
Part II Temple, Mosque, and Conquest
2. 'The Idols of Hind', Andre Wink
3. 'Temple Desecration and Indo-Muslim States', Richard M. Eaton
Part III The Qutb Mosque, the first Friday Mosque of Delhi
4. Controversy Between J.D. Beglar and Alexander Cunningham regarding the origins of Qutb Mosque and Qutb Minar
5. 'The Qutb as a Social Document', Mohammad Mujeeb
6. 'Architecture of the Early Sultanate Period and the Nature of the Muslim State in India', Fritz Lehmann
7. 'Qutb and Modern Memory', Sunil Kumar
8. 'Epigraphs, Scripture, and Architecture in the Early Sultanate of Delhi', Anthony Welch, Hussein Keshani, & Alexandra Bain
Part IV Early Mosques in Rajasthan
9. 'The "Two-and-a-Half-Day" Mosque', Michael Meister
10. 'Political Symbolism in early Indo-Islamic Mosque Architecture in the case of Ajmir', Robert Hillenbrand;
11. 'Indian Islam's Lotus Throne: Kaman and Khatu Kalan'