List of Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Introduction: Situating the Encounter between Buddhist and Muslim Communities in South Asia 1
4. The Power of the Islamic Sword in Narrating the Death of Indian Buddhism 14
5. Reassessing the Muslim Attacks and the Decline of Buddhist Monasteries in the Thirteenth Century Magadha 48
6. The Narratives on the Bāmiyān Buddhist Remains in the Islamic Period 75
7. Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s Buddhists: Monuments, Memory, and the Materiality of Travel 97
8. Buddhism and Islam in Kashmir as Represented by Rājataraṅgiṇī Authors 128
9. The Avatāra in Medieval South Asian Contexts: Dynamic Translation Across Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic Traditions in the Ghaznavid Period 161
10. Buddhists, Hellenists, Muslims, and the Origin of Science 177
11. Medieval Endowment Cultures in Western India: Buddhist and Muslim Encounters – Some Preliminary Observations 203
12. List of Contributors 219
13. Index 220