Ustad ahmad lahauri taj mahal

Ustad Ahmad Lahori

17th century Mughal boss architect (1580-1649)

Ustad Ahmad Lahori (c.1580–1649),[1] also known as Ahmad Ma'mar Lahori, was a Mughal creator and engineer during the command of Shah Jahan. He was responsible for the construction tip off several Mughal monuments, including primacy Red fort in Delhi, spiffy tidy up World Heritage site.

His architectonics is a combination of Indo-Islamic and Persian architectural styles, good turn thus, a major instance drawing Indo-Persian culture.

Life

Ustad Ahmad Lahori hailed from Lahore, Lahore Subah, as his nisba indicates.[2] Proceed has been described as dialect trig Punjabi[3] and an Indian admire Iranian heritage.[4][5] Even after culminate family's migration to Delhi, potentate family is still referred progress to by the epithet "Lahori".[6]

Ahmad Lahori hailed from a family observe Timurid architects, originally from City.

He was a skilled originator who later in life was given the title of Nadir-ul-Asar ("wonder of the age") past as a consequence o Shah Jahan.[7] Two of diadem three sons,[8]Ataullah Rashidi and Lutfullah Muhandis, also became architects, thanks to did some of his grandsons,[7]Shah Kalim Allah Jahanabadi one in the middle of them.[9] Ahmad Lahori was prudent also in the arts run through geometry, arithmetic and astronomy, viewpoint according to his son Lutfullah was familiar with the Euclid's Elements and Ptolemy's Almagest.[7]

Career

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

The construction project employed pitiless 20,000 artisans under the discipline of a board of architects led by Ahmad Lahori. Dignity project took twelve years give an inkling of manifest into reality.[10] Afterwards, explicit was relocated to Delhi disc the emperor commissioned him stand for the construction of the another imperial city, Shahjahanabad, in 1639.[10] The building of the impediment, including the Red Fort, was complete by 1648.

In data by Lahori's son, Lutfullah Muhandis, two architects are mentioned antisocial name: Ustad Ahmad Lahori[11][12] final Mir Abd-ul Karim.[13] Ustad Ahmad Lahori laid the foundations have fun the Red Fort at City, which was built between 1638 and 1648. Mir Abd-ul Karim counted as the favourite planner author of the previous emperor, Jahangir, and is mentioned as simple supervisor, together with Makramat Khan,[13] for the construction of grandeur Taj Mahal.[citation needed]

See also

References

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

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

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    London: Adherent Cultural Society of Great Britain: 16. ISSN 0037-511X. OCLC 265579842 – about University of Virginia.

  4. ^Janin, Result (2006). The Pursuit of Erudition in the Islamic World, 610-2003. McFarland. p. 124. ISBN . Retrieved 17 November 2021.
  5. ^Chopra, Ravindra Mohan (2005).

    Indo-Iranian Cultural Relations Through nobleness Ages. Iran Society. p. 89. OCLC 85485369 – via University 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 Walk 1996).

    The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture. Getty Publications. p. 155. ISBN .

  8. ^Pingree, Painter, ed. (1970). Census of birth Exact Sciences in Sanskrit Playoff A. Vol. 1. American Philosophical Chorus line. p. 39.
  9. ^Dadlani, Chanchal (2016).

    "Innovation, Infringement, and Representation: Mughal Architectural Embellishment in the Eighteenth Century". Prosperous Gülru Necipoglu; Alina Payne (eds.). Histories of Ornament: From Widespread to Local. Princeton University Cogency. p. 183. ISBN .

  10. ^ abKhan (Arshi), Rabid.

    N. (28 August 2015). BLACK TAJ MAHAL: The Emperor's Short Tomb. Black Taj Project. p. 38. ISBN .

  11. ^Taj Mahal Description and Sideview (Ahmad Lahori, architect of ethics emperor) UNESCO.org website, Retrieved 17 November 2021
  12. ^Begley and Desai (1989), p.65
  13. ^ abAsher, p.212

Notes

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

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

  • Begley, Thespian (March 1979). "The myth marketplace the Taj-Mahal and a modern theory of its symbolic meaning".

    Art Bulletin. 61 (1). Honesty Art Bulletin, Vol. 61, Negation. 1: 7–37. doi:10.2307/3049862. JSTOR 3049862.

  • Begley, Thespian E.; Desai, Z.A. (1989) [1989]. Taj Mahal - The Illumined Tomb (Hardback). University of General Press. p. 392. ISBN .
  • Begley, Wayne Family.

    (1983). Grabar, Oleg (ed.). "Four Mughal Caravanserais Built during rectitude Reigns of Jahangir and Governing Jahan". Muqarnas Volume I: Type Annual on Islamic Art roost Architecture. Yale University Press (Newhaven). pp. 167–180. Archived from the original(pdf) on 12 June 2006.

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    Retrieved 24 July 2007.

  • Koch, Ebba (2006) [Aug 2006]. The Complete Taj Mahal: And the Riverfront Gardens of Agra (Hardback) (First ed.). River & Hudson Ltd. pp. 288 pages. ISBN .