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The Khanqah-e-Moula Kashmiri: خانقاہِ معلیٰ), also known as Shah-e-Hamadan Masjid and Khanqah, is a Sunni mosque located in the Old City of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Situated on the right bank of the river Jhelum between the Fateh Kadal and Zaina Kadal bridges, it was built in 1395 CE , commissioned by Sultan Sikendar in ...
The Eidgah Shah-i-Hamdan [1] (Kashmiri: عیدگاہ شاہ ہمدان) is an historic eidgah (), located in Srinagar, in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, India.The Srinagar eidgah, named in honour of Mir Sayyid Ali Hamadani, is an open space on the banks of the Jhelum River where Muslims gather for Eid prayers on Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha.
Shib ad-Din became a follower of Mir Syed Hasan Semnani and so Hamadani was welcomed in Kashmir by the king and his heir apparent Qutbu'd-Din Shah. At that time, the Kashmiri ruler, Qutub ad-Din Shah was at war with Firuz Shah Tughlaq, the Sultan of Delhi, but Hamdani brokered a peace. Hamdani stayed in Kashmir for six months.
Islam is the majority religion practised in Kashmir, with 97.16% of the region's population identifying as Muslims as of 2014. [1] The religion came to the region with the arrival of Mir sayed Ali shah Hamdani, a Muslim Sufi preacher from Central Asia and Persia, beginning in the early 14th century.
The first Muslim missionary in Kashmir was Syed Sharaf-ud-Din Abdur Rahman Suhrawardi, popularly known as Bulbul Shah. He was an extensively traveled preacher and came to Kashmir during the reign of Raja Suhadeva (1301–20) the king of Lohara dynasty.
Many notable objects of this type are exhibited in museums in many parts of the world. The basic method followed was to apply the papier-mâché on wood work, and one such work can be seen in Kashmir at the Madin Sahib Mosque built in 1444, the ceiling of the Shah Hamdan Mosque and the Shalimar Garden, a Mughal garden in Srinagar.
[70] [71] They are described as having Turkish troops in their service by sources like Tabari and Tarikh-e-Sistan. [72] The first time the title of Zunbil appears in Arabic sources, it does so along with that of the Kabul Shah and according to Tabari was the title of the brother of Kabul's king (either Barha Tegin or Tegin Shah). The Zunbil ...
Tarikh e Khandan e Timuriyah also known as "Chronicle of the Descendants of Timur" is a 16th-century manuscript commissioned by Mughal Emperor Akbar in 1577–1578. [1] It describes the descendants of the 14th-century leader Timur in Iran and India [2] This volume was crafted for the emperor's personal use, thus securing a place in his personal library.