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 Babur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Coins were to be struck in Ismail's name, and the Khutba at the Mosque was also to be read in his name.
In effect, Babur was supposed to be holding Samarkand as a vassal territority for the Persian Shah, though in Kabul, coins and the Khutba would remain in Babur's name.
He also wrote or dicated his extraordinary memoirs, one of the great monuments of Chaghatai literature, and oversaw the beginnings of an artistic and architectural legacy which fused indigenous traditions with those from Iran and Central Asia (such as the domed tomb, the original model for which was the Gur-e Amir in Samarkand).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Babur   (4192 words)

  
 9. Ayodhya and the Supreme Court   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
They claimed the Babri Masjid because at one point it was a mosque, and regardless of that mosque’s prehistory, they insist on the principle: “once a mosque, always a mosque”.
Mentioning the historical claims regarding Ayodhya, he declares that Hindus believe only “since the 19th century” in the forcible replacement of a Rama temple by the Babri Masjid, that “there seems never to have been a temple underneath the mosque”, and that the Hindu pillars used in the mosque “were clearly brought from elsewhere”.
As for the calligraphy of the inscription attributing the building of the mosque to Babar’s lieutenant Mir Baqi, Srivastava argues (p.89) that it is in a style typical of the 19th century, so that the inscription constitutes but a very weak proof for dating the mosque to Babar’s reign.
koenraadelst.voiceofdharma.com /books/acat/ch9.htm   (10642 words)

  
 Islamic Sacred Sites and Places - ReligionFacts
Al-Azhar in Cairo, Egypt - the mosque university is the foremost school of Sunni Islam
Ferhadija Mosque in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina, destroyed in 1993
Mosque of Mohammed Ali at the Citadel, Cairo, Egypt
www.religionfacts.com /islam/places.htm   (287 words)

  
 The Futility of Dialogue with Babari Committee by Arun Shourie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
For a year and a half you keep issuing statements to the press, and writing ostensibly scholarly articles, and holding forth in interviews that the Babri Mosque was not, most definitely not, built by demolishing or even on a site of a temple.
You are nominated by the All India Babri Mosque Action Committee as an expert who will give his assessment of them.
The great Al-Aqsa mosque marks the print which the Prophet's foot made as he alighted from the winged horse which had carried him on his journey.
arunshourie.voiceofdharma.com /articles/babari.htm   (2190 words)

  
 Greater Democracy: Ethics Archives
In Pakistan, there is visible strife between Islamic sects, leading often to bloodbaths in mosques, of all places.
Communal disturbances associated with the demolition of the Babri Mosque, and the more recent riots in Ahmedabad, are typical illustrations of such religious and societal discord.
It establishes that misplaced and demonstrative religious zeal, at times resulting in violence, is not totally under control of any government in this region; rational elements, however, are working hard to avoid the eruption of tragedies of horrifying magnitude.
www.greaterdemocracy.org /archives/cat_ethics.html   (13218 words)

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