Shah-i Mashhad
Shah-e Mashhad , also Shah-i Mashhad , German translation Schah-i Maschhad , was the ruin of a Ghurid madrasa from the 12th century in the Afghan province of Badghis . It was on the left bank of the Murgab River . An inscription says that the building was donated by a woman in 571 AH (1175/76 AD). The name of this woman is not known. The madrasa can be considered a highlight of Guridic architecture.
The building made of fired bricks was roughly square with 44.2 × 44.0 meters, but until the 1970s only larger parts of the south side were preserved, which are extremely richly decorated with architectural ornaments and inscriptions. The remains of an entrance sofa were found here , which in 1972 still had a pointed arch. There were also two rooms, each covered with a dome. On the north side walls were preserved, which perhaps also come from an ivan, so that the building would have had four ivans around an inner courtyard. Since excavations never took place, this cannot be proven. The facade is decorated with a rich terracotta relief with ornamental inscriptions. A total of 15 inscriptions could be documented, ten of which are Kufish , three Naschī and two Thuluthish .
The ruins were completely destroyed during the war in the Soviet Union in Afghanistan in the mid-1980s.
literature
- Michael J. Casimir, Bernt Glazer: Šāh-i Mašhad: A Recently Discovered Madrasah of the Ghurid Region in Ġarǧistan (Afghanistan) . In: East and West , March 21-June 1971, pp. 53-68 of the JSTOR article
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Individual evidence
- ^ Major CE Yate: Northern Afghanistan. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2003, p. Xii
Coordinates: 35 ° 2 ′ 7 ″ N , 63 ° 59 ′ 34 ″ E