• The Museum of Islamic Art is a museum located in Ghazni, Afghanistan. It is located in Rauza, a suburb of Ghazni. The museum was first opened by the Italian...
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  • Doha, Qatar Museum of Islamic Art, Ghazni, Afghanistan Museum of Islamic Art, Palermo, Italy, located in Zisa Castle Museum of Islamic Art, Raqqada in...
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    capital of Ghazni evolved into a significant cultural, commercial, and intellectual centre in the Islamic world, almost rivalling the important city of Baghdad...
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    Citadel of Ghazni Minarets of Ghazni Palace of Sultan Mas'ud III Tomb of Sebuktigin Mausoleum of Sultan Mahmud Mausoleum of Sanai Museum of Islamic Art Tapa...
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    Islamic art is a part of Islamic culture and encompasses the visual arts produced since the 7th century CE by people who lived within territories inhabited...
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    adoption of Islam. Afghan local materials such as lapis lazuli were adapted for use in Islamic art. The Ghazni Minarets (12th century) and Minaret of Jam (c...
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  • Ghurid dynasty (redirect from House of Ghur)
    after the conquest of Ghor by the Ghaznavid ruler Mahmud of Ghazni in 1011. The Ghurids eventually overran the Ghaznavids when Muhammad of Ghor seized Lahore...
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    Khalili Collection of Islamic Art includes 28,000 objects documenting Islamic art over a period of almost 1400 years, from 700 AD to the end of the twentieth...
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    The history of Islam concerns the political, social, economic, military, and cultural developments of the Islamic civilization. Most historians believe...
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    remaining Hindu rulers and effectively Islamized the wider region, with the exception of Kafiristan. Mahmud made Ghazni into an important city and patronized...
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    Mahmud of Ghazni, Sultan of the Ghaznavid Empire, preserved an ideological link to the suzerainty of the Abbasid Caliphate and invaded vast parts of Punjab...
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    of Ghazna after the death of his father-in-law, Alp Tigin, who was an ex-general of the Samanid Empire from Balkh. Sabuktigin's son, Mahmud of Ghazni...
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    terms Muslim world and Islamic world commonly refer to the Islamic community, which is also known as the Ummah. This consists of all those who adhere to...
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    Empire of the Sultans: Ottoman Art of the Khalili Collection was a 1995–2004 touring exhibition displaying objects from the Khalili Collection of Islamic Art...
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  • morals" as defined by Islamic law. This allowed themes of homoeroticism and pederasty to be cultivated in Islamic poetry and other Islamic literary genres,...
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    Art of Mathura The Art of Mathura refers to a particular school of Indian art, almost entirely surviving in the form of sculpture, starting in the 2nd...
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    a large collection of Islamic art from the Ghaznavids and Timurids periods found at Ghazni. The museum has a large collection of coins, the Austrian...
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    Islamic architecture comprises the architectural styles of buildings associated with Islam. It encompasses both secular and religious styles from the early...
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    Herat (redirect from Sultanate of Herat)
    Kandahar, Ghazni, Kabul, Bamiyan, Balkh and Herat, conquering in the name of Islam. — N. Dupree The region of Herāt was under the rule of King Nuh III...
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  • Zunbils (category History of the Turkic peoples)
    the areas of Kabul and Zabulistan (around Ghazni), as well as the region of Arachosia as far as Kandahar, and founding the new dynasty of the Turk Shahis...
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    Department of Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 978-1-58839-434-7. "Roundel". The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Court...
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    Niwasa Khan renounced Islam, and attempted to secure control of the region in collusion with Abdul Fateh Daud. Mahmud of Ghazni then led another expedition...
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    with an attack by Mahmud Ghazni in the 11th century. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, historians and archaeologists of the colonial era actively...
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  • Turco-Persian tradition (category Culture of the Ottoman Empire)
    and their capital at Ghazni became second only to Baghdad in cultural elegance. It attracted many scholars and artists of the Islamic world. Turkic ascendance...
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    Retrieved 30 December 2017. "Islamic Miniature Painting and Book Illumination" (PDF). Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 28 (10): 166–171. October...
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    Abhaneri (category Wikipedia neutral point of view disputes from June 2018)
    Originally ruled by the Chahamanas of Shakambhari, the area was later conquered by Muslim invasions under Mahmud of Ghazni and later ruled by the Mughals...
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    The Islamic Golden Age was a period of scientific, economic and cultural flourishing in the history of Islam, traditionally dated from the 8th century...
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    century according to Archaeologists. Some Buddhist sites were found in Ghazni. The items in Logar include two Buddhist temples (Stupas), Buddha statues...
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    travelers to visit in Ghazni Province: Band-e Sultan Burial site of Al-Biruni Burial site of Mahmud of Ghazni Citadel of Ghazni Ghazni Minarets Jaghori Sardeh...
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  • Turk Shahis (category Dynasties of Afghanistan)
    archaeological site of Tapa Sardar near Ghazni in Afghanistan, while this new form of art appears in its mature state in Fondukistan. The works of art of this period...
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