Editing Babri Masjid (section)

== Etymology ==
The name "Babri Masjid" comes from the name of the [[Mughal emperor]] [[Babur]], who is said to have ordered its construction.<ref name="Colin">{{cite book |last=Flint |first=Colin |title=The geography of war and peace |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-0-19-516208-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Ms5N7NhGXIC&pg=PA165 |page=165 |access-date=15 August 2016 |archive-date=14 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230414061243/https://books.google.com/books?id=7Ms5N7NhGXIC&pg=PA165 |url-status=live }}</ref> Before the 1940s, it was called ''Masjid-i Janmasthan'' ("mosque of the birthplace") including in official documents.<ref name="janmasthan">Multiple sources state this fact:
*{{citation |last=Griffiths |first=Gareth |chapter=Open Spaces, Contested Places: Writing and the Fundamentalist Inscription of Territory |editor1=Axel Stähler |editor2=Klaus Stierstorfer |title=Writing Fundamentalism |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XFxJDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA63 |year=2009 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |isbn=978-1-4438-1189-7 |page=63}}
*{{citation |first=K. |last=Jaishankar |chapter=Communal Violence and Terrorism in India |editor1=Thomas Albert Gilly |editor2=Yakov Gilinskiy |editor3=Vladimir Sergevnin |title=The Ethics of Terrorism: Innovative Approaches from an International Perspective (17 Lectures). |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w5SlnZilfMMC&pg=PA25 |year=2009 |publisher=Charles C Thomas Publisher |isbn=978-0-398-07995-6 |page=25 |quote=Before the 1940s, the Mosque was called Masjid-i Janmasthan}}
*{{harvnb|Narain, The Ayodhya Temple Mosque Dispute1993|pp=19, 27, 104}}</ref>