Mughal architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Mughal architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Asher, Catherine B.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1062756
Doc. NO	:	ALei3153
Main Entry	:	Asher, Catherine B.
Title & Author	:	Mughal architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Asher, Catherine B.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(4,381 words)
Abstract	:	Mughal architecture developed from Tīmūrid and sultanate precedents. The ninth/fifteenth-century architecture of the Tīmūrid empire was then considered the most sophisticated in the Islamic world, and it was brought to India by Bābur, a Tīmūrid prince who became the first Mughal emperor. Construction under the North Indian Muslim sultanates from the late sixth/twelfth century through the early tenth/sixteenth lacked the technological advances of Tīmūrid buildings but was distinguished by remarkable stone carving and the adaptation of local forms. By the late tenth/sixteenth century a distinctly
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei3153.pdf