What are your honest thoughts on Indo-Islamic architecture from the Indian subcontinent?
jeets and persians injected satanic sufism into islam.
>>220411471it's cool but I prefer Indian Gothic architecture
>>220411500In Pakistan/Indus Valley there are more Central Asian/Iranian looking buildings while the further east you go they start incorporating more local features also shared with Hindu buildings like Bengali curved roofs and Indian-style pillars and corbels.
>>220411864noone cares about how mosques look like beside non muslims and jeets. beauty and welath is against islam
>>220411987Mosques from Kashmir can look quite similar to Hindu buildings in neighboring Himalayan region but they seem more elaborate and incorporate Islamic/Iranic motifs.
>>220412168Everything is wooden and the interior is painted in geometric patterns and flowers. They look quite comfy.
Shah Jahan Mosque in Sindh, Pakistan with beautiful tile work reminiscent of Central Asia.
>>220412251gypsy tasteall jeetoides are gypsy original
>>220412495And just across the Thar desert from Sindh in Rajasthan the early Adhai Din Ka Jhonpra Mosque which incorporates Hindu style motifs and sculptures into the windows, ceiling and pillars (although these last ones may be spolia from Hindu temples like how in North Africa and Turkey there are Roman era pillars inside some mosques).
>>220411864Beautiful
Pathrail Mosque in Bangladeshi with a traditional Bengali curved room, arabesques and with iwan-style doors.
Looks like Persian architecture
>>220411471should be decolonizedindia is hindu, not muslim
The Gol Gumbaz, a mausoleum commemorating an Adil Shahi ruler from the era of the Deccan sultanates located all the way in the southern Indian state of Karnataka. Built in the 17th century it was the largest dome built in the Islamic world at the time and apparently it's the largest premodern dome after Hagia Sophia's.
I will reply later cause I have to go
>>220413459Based. Same for the rest of the Middle East and South East Asia. Imagine a Buddhist Afghanistan or a Zoroastrian Iran
>>220411471Reminder all Islamic architecture is stolen from Byzantine-Greek Christian architecture.
>>220412668I know right. I had never seen an Islamic dome covered in that kind of green tiles before. It's a nice contrast with the red/blue building.
>>220413205Almost all Muslim dynasties and states that rose in the Indian subcontinent were Persianate societies so that is to be expected but there's also local innovations and elaborations on Persian elements and incorporation of local pre-Islamic styles.
>>220416798Wrong. Most Islamic domes besides those in the Maghreb (where they are hardly used) and Ottoman style come from Persian domes which were developed independently of Greek ones and were already in use in Zoroastrian religious architecture when Islam came to Iran. In fact, many of the fire temple remains in Iran have the basic form that was later used and still used for Islamic tomb mausoleums.
>>220413459Did you know that the use of true arches and domes was introduced along with Islam into the subcontinent? Now they are used by everyone, specially in Sikh architecture.
>>220412168Beautiful, Kerala also has some exemplary wooden architecture as I'm sure you know.>>220418410>Did you know that the use of true arches and domes was introduced along with Islam into the subcontinentI would disagree here, Gupta architecture developed the true arch and it was very popular in East Indian Buddhist architecture as shown in Pala era miniature shrines. You can see an example in picrel, all surviving examples of major Hindu or Buddhist sites using them were destroyed during the Islamic conquests, but the style survives in Myanmar's Bagan which is Pala-style architecture featuring arches.The dome also arguably existed in Northwest India which always had connections to Bactria and Iran elements, but was only popularized following the Muslim conquests. Even here Jain temples predating Islamic rule attempted to replicate arches by use of corbels, and simple arches debatably existed in vernacular architecture though we can't be certain.
>>220419552>attempted to replicate arches*replicate domesAlso have this beautiful Kerala temple for your efforts, Indo-Islamic architecture is horribly overlooked outside Mughal and occasionally Delhi stuff
>>220418170Nah, the al aqsa mosque rips off late roman architecture
>>220419697You're right that Ottoman architecture is primarily Roman but Persian architecture is unique from it which I think the other guy was trying to say
>>220418170>dome sanchi buddhist stupa built in 3rd century BCE by Emperor Ashoka
>>220413205Turkic empires always had Persian court culture. See also, the Ottomans. The 'primitive' religion and material culture of steppe nomads was a vacuum into which the conquered people's culture was able to flow and reverse conquer. See also, Kublai Khan.
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>>220416694>steppe/desert warrior culture>non-cosmopolitan>non-agarianthat's why bamyan was bombed
