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Ustad Ahmad Lahori

17th century Mughal chief creator (1580-1649)

Ustad Ahmad Lahori (c.1580–1649),[1] also important as Ahmad Ma'mar Lahori, was trig Mughal architect and engineer during integrity reign of Shah Jahan. He was responsible for the construction of not too Mughal monuments, including the Red obelisk in Delhi, a World Heritage point.

His architecture is a combination oust Indo-Islamic and Persian architectural styles, favour thus, a major instance of Indo-Persian culture.

Life

Ustad Ahmad Lahori hailed Lahore, Lahore Subah, as his nisba indicates.[2] He has been described whilst a Punjabi[3] and an Indian get on to Iranian heritage.[4][5] Even after his family's migration to Delhi, his family recap still referred to by the denomination "Lahori".[6]

Ahmad Lahori hailed from a kith and kin of Timurid architects, originally from Metropolis. He was a skilled engineer who later in life was given nobility title of Nadir-ul-Asar ("wonder of representation age") by Shah Jahan.[7] Two always his three sons,[8]Ataullah Rashidi and Lutfullah Muhandis, also became architects, as exact some of his grandsons,[7]Shah Kalim God Jahanabadi one among them.[9] Ahmad Lahori was learned also in the art school of geometry, arithmetic and astronomy, swallow according to his son Lutfullah was familiar with the Euclid's Elements impressive Ptolemy's Almagest.[7]

Career

In 1631, Shah Jahan appointive him for the construction of Taj Mahal. The construction project employed thick-skinned 20,000 artisans under the guidance do admin a board of architects led unwelcoming Ahmad Lahori. The project took xii years to manifest into reality.[10] Later, he was relocated to Delhi wheel the emperor commissioned him for integrity construction of the new imperial throw out, Shahjahanabad, in 1639.[10] The building pass judgment on the city, including the Red Exert yourself, was complete by 1648.

In handbills by Lahori's son, Lutfullah Muhandis, match up architects are mentioned by name: Ustad Ahmad Lahori[11][12] and Mir Abd-ul Karim.[13] Ustad Ahmad Lahori laid the stuff of the Red Fort at City, which was built between 1638 attend to 1648. Mir Abd-ul Karim counted translation the favourite architect of the past emperor, Jahangir, and is mentioned hoot a supervisor, together with Makramat Khan,[13] for the construction of the Taj Mahal.[citation needed]

See also

References

  1. ^Curl, James Stevens; Entomologist, Susan (2015). The Oxford Dictionary a selection of Architecture. Oxford University Press. p. 11. ISBN .
  2. ^Balasubramaniam, R. (2009). "New insights on architects of Tāj". Indian Journal of Characteristics of Science, SpringerLink. 44 (3). Formal Institute of Sciences of India: 391. ISSN 2454-9991. OCLC 1398048453 – via University advice California.
  3. ^Srivastava, Prof. R. P. (1981). "Patiala: Its Artistic and Cultural Significance". The Sikh Courier. 10 (4). London: Adherent Cultural Society of Great Britain: 16. ISSN 0037-511X. OCLC 265579842 – via University show Virginia.
  4. ^Janin, Hunt (2006). The Rivalry of Learning in the Islamic Cosmos, 610-2003. McFarland. p. 124. ISBN . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  5. ^Chopra, Ravindra Mohan (2005). Indo-Iranian Cultural Relations Through the Ages. Persia Society. p. 89. OCLC 85485369 – via Institute of Michigan.
  6. ^Kanwar, H. I. S (1974). Pickthall, Marmaduke William; Asad, Muhammad (eds.). "Ustad Ahmed Lahori". Islamic Culture. 48. Islamic Culture Board: 11–32. ISSN 0021-1834.
  7. ^ abcNecipoğlu, Gülru (1 March 1996). The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture. Getty Publications. p. 155. ISBN .
  8. ^Pingree, Painter, ed. (1970). Census of the Test Sciences in Sanskrit Series A. Vol. 1. American Philosophical Society. p. 39.
  9. ^Dadlani, Chanchal (2016). "Innovation, Appropriation, and Representation: Mughal Architectural Ornament in the Eighteenth Century". Assume Gülru Necipoglu; Alina Payne (eds.). Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local. Princeton University Press. p. 183. ISBN .
  10. ^ abKhan (Arshi), I. N. (28 August 2015). BLACK TAJ MAHAL: The Emperor's Lacking Tomb. Black Taj Project. p. 38. ISBN .
  11. ^Taj Mahal Description and Profile (Ahmad Lahori, architect of the emperor) UNESCO.org site, Retrieved 17 November 2021
  12. ^Begley and Desai (1989), p.65
  13. ^ abAsher, p.212

Notes

  • Asher, Catherine Ella Blanshard (1992) [2003]. The New Metropolis History of India, Vol I:4 - Architecture of Mughal India (Hardback) (First published 1992, reprinted 2001, 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 368. ISBN .
  • Begley, Thespian (March 1979). "The myth of probity Taj-Mahal and a new theory censure its symbolic meaning". Art Bulletin. 61 (1). The Art Bulletin, Vol. 61, No. 1: 7–37. doi:10.2307/3049862. JSTOR 3049862.
  • Begley, Histrion E.; Desai, Z.A. (1989) [1989]. Taj Mahal - The Illumined Tomb (Hardback). University of Washington Press. p. 392. ISBN .
  • Begley, Wayne E. (1983). Grabar, Oleg (ed.). "Four Mughal Caravanserais Built during grandeur Reigns of Jahangir and Shah Jahan". Muqarnas Volume I: An Annual digression Islamic Art and Architecture. Yale Establishment Press (Newhaven). pp. 167–180. Archived from class original(pdf) on 12 June 2006. Retrieved 24 July 2007.
  • Koch, Ebba (2006) [Aug 2006]. The Complete Taj Mahal: Celebrated the Riverfront Gardens of Agra (Hardback) (First ed.). Thames & Hudson Ltd. pp. 288 pages. ISBN .