Architecture and Art of the Deccan Sultanates

This chapter describes, with illustrations, an array of Jami mosques and other places of prayer and several tombs in the Deccan region. Personal ambition on the part of sultans, their ministers and commanders accounts for a funerary tradition that often represents the finest architectural achievements of the period. The chapter includes the Jami mosque and Chand Minar in Daulatabad, Solah Khamba mosque in Bidar, Jami mosque in Gulbarga, the tombs of Alauddin Hasan Bahman Shah, Muhammad I and Tajuddin Firuz, the Langar-ki mosque in Gulbarga, and the tombs of Ahmad I, Alauddin Ahmad II in Bidar. It also includes the tombs of Ahmad Bahri Nizam Shah and Salabat Khan, and Damri mosque in Ahmadnagar, the tomb of Malik Ambar in Khuldabad, the dargah of Shaykh Sirajuddin Junaydi in Gulbarga, the Jami and Anda mosques, the tomb of Ibrahim Adil Shah II, and the Gol Gumbad in Bijapur, and Bibi-ka Maqbara and Shahi mosque in Auranga.