A Victory Tower Built by a Slave: The Chand Minar at Daulatabad in Deccan India
Abstract The Chand Minar (1446) at Daulatabad Fort is one of the tallest pre-modern stone minarets in the world and has long been recognized as a major work of Indo-Islamic architecture. Yet surprisingly little is known about the building: its iconography and the reason for its construction have not...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Brill
2021
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Muqarnas
Year: 2021, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 35-76 |
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African slavery
B Bahmani B Vijayanagara B South Asian architecture B Race B Deccan B Firishta B Islamic Architecture B Daulatabad B minaret B Chand Minar |
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