Representations of the Palace and Cityscape of Shahjahanabad in the Pādishāh-nāma (Book of the Emperor) of Shaykh Muhammad Waris, with Edited Persian Text and Translation by Wheeler M. Thackston
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This paper seeks to describe a significant imperial project: the establishment of the city of Shahjahanbad and its monuments, laid out from 1639 onwards in the area of Delhi, as described in the Padishāh-nāma of Shaykh Muhammad Waris, an official historiographer of Emperor Shah Jahan, the fifth Indo-Timurid ruler of India. Waris emphatically connected the foundation of the city to the personal involvement of the emperor. The monumental fortress palace, Jama Masjid, Akbarabadi Mosque, and Fatehpuri Mosque, along with the royal bazaars formed the backbone of the urban master plan conceived and executed by the emperor with a team of dedicated experts knowledgeable in the art of building (kār agāhān-i-ʿimārat). In the founding of a new city, abundance of water and a temperate climate (muʿtadil hawā) were major criteria. The River Yamuna and the system of canals and reservoirs were always vital to the landscape of urban life in the Delhi area. The existing waterways were used and transformed through the laying out of formal gardens such as the Hayatbakhsh Garden, Jahanara Garden, and Shalimar Gardens into a sophisticated water system derived from Nahr-i Bihisht. The appendix contains selected passages from Shaykh Muhammad Waris’s Pādishāh-nāma, translated by Wheeler M. Thackston.
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Representations of the Palace and Cityscape of Shahjahanabad in the Pādishāh-nāma (Book of the Emperor) of Shaykh Muhammad Waris, with Edited Persian Text and Translation by Wheeler M. Thackston
In: Muqarnas OnlineSearch for other papers by Gulfishan Khan in
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Abstract
This paper seeks to describe a significant imperial project: the establishment of the city of Shahjahanbad and its monuments, laid out from 1639 onwards in the area of Delhi, as described in the Padishāh-nāma of Shaykh Muhammad Waris, an official historiographer of Emperor Shah Jahan, the fifth Indo-Timurid ruler of India. Waris emphatically connected the foundation of the city to the personal involvement of the emperor. The monumental fortress palace, Jama Masjid, Akbarabadi Mosque, and Fatehpuri Mosque, along with the royal bazaars formed the backbone of the urban master plan conceived and executed by the emperor with a team of dedicated experts knowledgeable in the art of building (kār agāhān-i-ʿimārat). In the founding of a new city, abundance of water and a temperate climate (muʿtadil hawā) were major criteria. The River Yamuna and the system of canals and reservoirs were always vital to the landscape of urban life in the Delhi area. The existing waterways were used and transformed through the laying out of formal gardens such as the Hayatbakhsh Garden, Jahanara Garden, and Shalimar Gardens into a sophisticated water system derived from Nahr-i Bihisht. The appendix contains selected passages from Shaykh Muhammad Waris’s Pādishāh-nāma, translated by Wheeler M. Thackston.
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| Abstract Views | 230 | 230 | 38 |
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| PDF Views & Downloads | 239 | 239 | 7 |