The Footprint of the Prophet at the Gate to Mecca: Mediating Empire, Pilgrimage, and Prophetic Piety in Mughal Gujarat
This article unpacks the connections between empire, piety, and pilgrimage in the early modern western Indian Ocean world by examining the history of a reliquary shrine dedicated to a qadam, or footprint relic of the Prophet Muḥammad located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Classified by the Archeological Sur...
| Published in: | The Journal of Hindu Studies |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press (OUP)
2021
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jhs/hiab015 https://academic.oup.com/jhs/article-pdf/14/2/103/41146669/hiab015.pdf |