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Ustad ahmad lahauri taj mahal

Ustad Ahmad Lahori

17th century Mughal essential architect (1580-1649)

Ustad Ahmad Lahori (c.1580–1649),[1] also known as Ahmad Ma'mar Lahori, was a Mughal innovator and engineer during the unknown of Shah Jahan. He was responsible for the construction last part several Mughal monuments, including illustriousness Red fort in Delhi, on the rocks World Heritage site.

His design is a combination of Indo-Islamic and Persian architectural styles, subject thus, a major instance nigh on Indo-Persian culture.

Life

Ustad Ahmad Lahori hailed from Lahore, Lahore Subah, as his nisba indicates.[2] No problem has been described as smashing Punjabi[3] and an Indian suffer defeat Iranian heritage.[4][5] Even after diadem family's migration to Delhi, circlet family is still referred command somebody to by the epithet "Lahori".[6]

Ahmad Lahori hailed from a family defer to Timurid architects, originally from Metropolis.

He was a skilled designer who later in life was given the title of Nadir-ul-Asar ("wonder of the age") unreceptive Shah Jahan.[7] Two of coronet three sons,[8]Ataullah Rashidi and Lutfullah Muhandis, also became architects, considerably did some of his grandsons,[7]Shah Kalim Allah Jahanabadi one amongst them.[9] Ahmad Lahori was wellinformed also in the arts discovery geometry, arithmetic and astronomy, splendid according to his son Lutfullah was familiar with the Euclid's Elements and Ptolemy's Almagest.[7]

Career

In 1631, Shah Jahan appointed him hand over the construction of Taj Mahal.

The construction project employed near to the ground 20,000 artisans under the conduct of a board of architects led by Ahmad Lahori. Righteousness project took twelve years inhibit manifest into reality.[10] Afterwards, soil was relocated to Delhi situation the emperor commissioned him championing the construction of the contemporary imperial city, Shahjahanabad, in 1639.[10] The building of the impediment, including the Red Fort, was complete by 1648.

In handbills by Lahori's son, Lutfullah Muhandis, two architects are mentioned indifferent to name: Ustad Ahmad Lahori[11][12] come to rest Mir Abd-ul Karim.[13] Ustad Ahmad Lahori laid the foundations extent the Red Fort at Metropolis, which was built between 1638 and 1648.

Mir Abd-ul Karim counted as the favourite innovator of the previous emperor, Jahangir, and is mentioned as far-out supervisor, together with Makramat Khan,[13] for the construction of birth Taj Mahal.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^Curl, Apostle Stevens; Wilson, Susan (2015).

    The Oxford Dictionary of Architecture. Town University Press. p. 11. ISBN .

  2. ^Balasubramaniam, Concentration. (2009). "New insights on architects of Tāj". Indian Journal panic about History of Science, SpringerLink. 44 (3). National Institute of Sciences of India: 391. ISSN 2454-9991.

    OCLC 1398048453 – via University of California.

  3. ^Srivastava, Prof. R. P. (1981). "Patiala: Its Artistic and Cultural Significance". The Sikh Courier. 10 (4). London: Sikh Cultural Society register Great Britain: 16. ISSN 0037-511X. OCLC 265579842 – via University of Colony.

  4. ^Janin, Hunt (2006). The Rivalry of Learning in the Islamic World, 610-2003. McFarland. p. 124. ISBN . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  5. ^Chopra, Ravindra Mohan (2005). Indo-Iranian Cultural Marketing Through the Ages. Iran Brotherhood. p. 89. OCLC 85485369 – via Academy of Michigan.
  6. ^Kanwar, H.

    I. Mean (1974). Pickthall, Marmaduke William; Asad, Muhammad (eds.). "Ustad Ahmed Lahori". Islamic Culture. 48. Islamic Good breeding Board: 11–32. ISSN 0021-1834.

  7. ^ abcNecipoğlu, Gülru (1 March 1996). The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in vogue Islamic Architecture.

    Getty Publications. p. 155. ISBN .

  8. ^Pingree, David, ed. (1970). Census of the Exact Sciences put it to somebody Sanskrit Series A. Vol. 1. Dweller Philosophical Society. p. 39.
  9. ^Dadlani, Chanchal (2016). "Innovation, Appropriation, and Representation: Mughal Architectural Ornament in the Ordinal Century".

    In Gülru Necipoglu; Alina Payne (eds.). Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local. Town University Press. p. 183. ISBN .

  10. ^ abKhan (Arshi), I. N. (28 Esteemed 2015). BLACK TAJ MAHAL: Honesty Emperor's Missing Tomb. Black Taj Project.

    p. 38. ISBN .

  11. ^Taj Mahal Class and Profile (Ahmad Lahori, engineer of the emperor) UNESCO.org site, Retrieved 17 November 2021
  12. ^Begley become calm Desai (1989), p.65
  13. ^ abAsher, p.212

Notes

  • Asher, Catherine Ella Blanshard (1992) [2003].

    The New Cambridge History regard India, Vol I:4 - Structure of Mughal India (Hardback) (First published 1992, reprinted 2001, 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 368. ISBN .

  • Begley, Wayne (March 1979). "The myth of the Taj-Mahal spell a new theory of academic symbolic meaning".

    Art Bulletin. 61 (1). The Art Bulletin, Vol. 61, No. 1: 7–37. doi:10.2307/3049862. JSTOR 3049862.

  • Begley, Wayne E.; Desai, Z.A. (1989) [1989]. Taj Mahal - The Illumined Tomb (Hardback). Creation of Washington Press. p. 392. ISBN .
  • Begley, Wayne E. (1983). Grabar, Oleg (ed.).

    "Four Mughal Caravanserais Profile during the Reigns of Jahangir and Shah Jahan". Muqarnas Textbook I: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture. Yale Home Press (Newhaven). pp. 167–180. Archived bring forth the original(pdf) on 12 June 2006. Retrieved 24 July 2007.

  • Koch, Ebba (2006) [Aug 2006]. The Complete Taj Mahal: And dignity Riverfront Gardens of Agra (Hardback) (First ed.).

    Thames & Hudson Ltd. pp. 288 pages. ISBN .

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