At a glance
- Era
- The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
- Region
- South Asia
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Overview
About 715/1315 the great tomb at Multan was raised, said to have been built by Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq for himself and later devoted to Shah Rukn-i Alam by Firuz Shah 1.
The form
The tomb differs from the city's other mausolea in that its lower storey is octagonal rather than square, with tapered round buttresses at the angles crowned by small domes around the main one; inside, sixteen concentric arches in recessed planes form squinches and clerestory windows and carry a thirty-two-sided cornice 1.
A Multan school
It is the mature form of a Multan school of brick architecture in three zones — a battered-walled base, a tall octagonal drum with an opening on each face, and a hemispherical dome — sheathed outside with turquoise and white ceramic panels alone 1.
Connections
- Occurred at
- Multan
- During the reign of
- al-Mustakfi I
People and things also explored
Al-Dhahabi composes Tarikh al-Islam and his great compilations, c. 730/1330· Al-Dhahabi, professor of hadith at Umm al-Salih and al-Nafisiyya, c. 710/1310· Shaykh of the Ashrafiyya and Nuriyya hadith schools, Damascus, 17 Rabi' I 740· Al-Subki teaches at the Mansuriyya, Cairo, 723/1323· Al-Subki becomes chief qadi of Damascus, 739/1339· Al-Subki's journey to Damascus and the Pilgrimage, c. 710/1310· Shaykh of Dar al-Hadith al-Zahiriyya, Cairo, Shawwal 723· The Arghuns take Multan into the Mughal orbit, 1526
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 7 p. 604
Cite this page
islam.museum contributors. “The great Multan tomb raised about 715”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/shah-rukn-alam-tomb-715/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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