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SARACENIO ARCHITECTURE.
Book IX.
CHAPTER IY.
I N D I A.
CONTENTS.
Local character of style — Ghazni — Remains at Dellii — Jaunpore — M'osques at
Gour-—Mandoo •— Mosque at Futtehpore Sicri — Mosque of Shah Jehan atDelhi
— Tombs — Tombs at Agra and Old Delhi — The Taje Mehal—Great Dome at
Beejapore — Palaces: of Akbar; of Shah Jehan.
CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA.
DATES.
Sabuktagin tlie Ghaznavide. First Maho-
metan invasion of India .... a.d. 9i75*
Mahmoud, conqueror of India .... 99T
Shahab ud deen establishes Ghori dynasty HS3
Kootub ud deen establishes Pathan dynasty,
builder of mosque at Delhi .... 1206
Sekander Shah, buiider of mosque at Gour 1358
Khoja Jehan, builder of mosque at Jaun-
pore. 1397
Baber establishes Mogul dynasty . . . 1494
* If not othenvise stated, the date j
DATES.
Yusuf Khan establishes dynasty at Beeja-
pore.a.d. 1501
Humayun, builder of tomb at Old Delhi . 1531
Akbar, builder of mosque and palace at
Futtehpore Sicri—tomb at Secundra . 1556
Muhammed, builder of great dome at Bee-
japore. 1626
Shah Jehan, builder of palaces at Delhi
and Agra. Taje Mehal at Agra . . 1628
Aurungzebe. 1658
iven is that of the beginning of the reign.
During the permanence of the Eoman empire a great helt of sta-
tionary civilized nations extended nearly dne eastward from the shores
of the Mediterranean to the Bay of Bengal. Uninfluenced by their
arts or civilization, two great wandering hordes hung upon the northern
and southern frontiers. The Arabs, as tlie nearest and most impetuous,
first hurst their bonds, and spread over Syria, Egypt, and Persia. The
three fojdowing centuries sufficed not only to expend tlieir energy, hut
to steep them in the luxury and enervation of t.hose nations whom they
had subdued, more in consequence of the vices of the conquered races
than from their own prowess. Tlie Arahs in their turn made wa}^ for
the irruption of the great Turkish or Tartar tribes, wlio, from heing
simple shepherds pasturing their flocks on the grassy plains of Upper
Asia, hecame a race of conquerors extending their victorious arms
over the fairest part of tlie inliahited glohe. After three centuries of
continued progress, Turkish governors ruled over all the Mahometan
kingdoms of tlie East, extending from the Nile and the Adriatio to the
mouth of the Ganges.
Thus we find in the earlier Mahometan architecture of Egypt a
purely Arahic elaboration of the Byzantine style; hut with a gradual
introduction of a Tartar element under the Memlook Sultans. In Persia
the sarne was probably the case; but in India the Arabio phase is
SARACENIO ARCHITECTURE.
Book IX.
CHAPTER IY.
I N D I A.
CONTENTS.
Local character of style — Ghazni — Remains at Dellii — Jaunpore — M'osques at
Gour-—Mandoo •— Mosque at Futtehpore Sicri — Mosque of Shah Jehan atDelhi
— Tombs — Tombs at Agra and Old Delhi — The Taje Mehal—Great Dome at
Beejapore — Palaces: of Akbar; of Shah Jehan.
CHRONOLOGICAL MEMORANDA.
DATES.
Sabuktagin tlie Ghaznavide. First Maho-
metan invasion of India .... a.d. 9i75*
Mahmoud, conqueror of India .... 99T
Shahab ud deen establishes Ghori dynasty HS3
Kootub ud deen establishes Pathan dynasty,
builder of mosque at Delhi .... 1206
Sekander Shah, buiider of mosque at Gour 1358
Khoja Jehan, builder of mosque at Jaun-
pore. 1397
Baber establishes Mogul dynasty . . . 1494
* If not othenvise stated, the date j
DATES.
Yusuf Khan establishes dynasty at Beeja-
pore.a.d. 1501
Humayun, builder of tomb at Old Delhi . 1531
Akbar, builder of mosque and palace at
Futtehpore Sicri—tomb at Secundra . 1556
Muhammed, builder of great dome at Bee-
japore. 1626
Shah Jehan, builder of palaces at Delhi
and Agra. Taje Mehal at Agra . . 1628
Aurungzebe. 1658
iven is that of the beginning of the reign.
During the permanence of the Eoman empire a great helt of sta-
tionary civilized nations extended nearly dne eastward from the shores
of the Mediterranean to the Bay of Bengal. Uninfluenced by their
arts or civilization, two great wandering hordes hung upon the northern
and southern frontiers. The Arabs, as tlie nearest and most impetuous,
first hurst their bonds, and spread over Syria, Egypt, and Persia. The
three fojdowing centuries sufficed not only to expend tlieir energy, hut
to steep them in the luxury and enervation of t.hose nations whom they
had subdued, more in consequence of the vices of the conquered races
than from their own prowess. Tlie Arahs in their turn made wa}^ for
the irruption of the great Turkish or Tartar tribes, wlio, from heing
simple shepherds pasturing their flocks on the grassy plains of Upper
Asia, hecame a race of conquerors extending their victorious arms
over the fairest part of tlie inliahited glohe. After three centuries of
continued progress, Turkish governors ruled over all the Mahometan
kingdoms of tlie East, extending from the Nile and the Adriatio to the
mouth of the Ganges.
Thus we find in the earlier Mahometan architecture of Egypt a
purely Arahic elaboration of the Byzantine style; hut with a gradual
introduction of a Tartar element under the Memlook Sultans. In Persia
the sarne was probably the case; but in India the Arabio phase is