Forgotten craftsmen who built Taj Mahal

Ustad Isa (Agra/Shiraz), as you know in the old days you put the city your from in your name, just as you clamed rum was a place in Turley the fact he had Shirazi as part of his full name indicates he is from the city of Shiraz., we cannot take Italians helping in it seriously at all, the Islamic world was far ahead of europe during this time in science, engineering, architecture and mathamatics, all Italy had was artists who could paint.

I mean no offence but this is part of a Pan-turkism, it is not just one source that states he was Persian but many.

Ismail Khan seems to be Muslim name...

 

check this out

 

Taj Mahal - A Hindu Temple-Palace

 

http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate/tejo.html

http://www.geocities.com/no_islam2000/

Edited by azimuth

not only the site but the building itself

its original name was TejoMahalay signifying a Shiva Temple !!

i see that they are working very hard to make this a belivable nonsense lol

Rakhsh

I dont interest with panturkism, as you said some cites say he is persian and some say he is not.  It looks like his race is unknown. I am not saying he was turk or not.

Armenians were good architect, but I am not sure If architect of Taj Mahal is armenian or not. If he was devsirme (most probably) he can be any race, be armenian, albanian, bosnian or greek.(Well except ethnic Muslim Turks)

For Mimar Sinan, Greeks say he is greek, and armenians say he is armenian. So I dont think we have a good knowledge about Ismail Khan too. Also Khan was not much used in ottoman Turks. a little weird.

When We are calling him as Turk, we mostly main not ethnically but culturaly.Even If all of them comes from armenian stock, their culture was Ottoman-Turkish culture.

Infact If Armenians or other claim this guys as their, It is not problem. But They should claim ottomans as their too. Because they were ottomans and Unfortunately, It was only Turkey and somehow bosnia, who accept ottoman empire as their own.

 

 

 

 

Well even it is a beatiful building, I dont think it consist much love, building that type of building mostly cost others money and life.

By the way, what do you mean with destroyed by nationalism? do india harmed it?

 

ohh and the claim of the architect being not Persian..... many other factors

Originally posted by azimuth check this out   Taj Mahal - A Hindu Temple-Palace   http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate/tejo.html http://www.geocities.com/no_islam2000/

Actually they can make that argument. If you look around the structure, you can find traces of destroyed statues of elephants and such, which is a predominantly Rajput style, not Persian, or Turkic style.

The entire building couldn't have been converted but its quite possible that the muslims used a captured temple complex to build this Icon. The name isn't Islamic either. Taj Mahal is not found in persian as far as I know.

This building is Composition artwork from Indian, Iranian, Arabs & Turks.
but without any Nationalistic view, It based on Iranian Foundation.

Just, Compare main dome with Sheikh LotfAllah ones in Esfahan
http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5779& ; ;PN=1
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& pool & Side of "Sarve Shirazi" cedars tree is type of Iranian garden.

3d Recreation of Persepolise

Baghe Shazde, Shahdad, Kerman, Iran

Hamame Fin, Kashan, Esfahan, Iran 

Baghe Eram, Shiraz, Iran

Narenjestan, Shiraz, Iran
 

Chehel soton, Esfahan, Iran

Naghshe Jahan, Esfahan, Iran

Baghe Delgosha, Shiraz, Iran

Edited by Land of Aryan

Originally posted by Rakhsh Actually Taj Mahal is found in Farsi, what is your source... see your nationalising this. It is Very Islamic, what elephants? Do you not think Iran had Elephants in its army? I think this again is nationalistic propoganda, like we said please stop it. It is A persian Design, Indians, Persians, Turks and Arabs worked on this that is a fact. There is alot of proof for it. As for their arguement (very unscholarly but...) it is all lies..... Thankd for you input Darkness1087 you are now asked by me nicely, stop, birng something more, thank you, have a nice day

Where is the Farsi source for Taj Mahal? I have heard from some sources that a few Indian muslims believe that it was a Hindu building (they are of course BJP muslims leaders so that does change some things).

Anyway you can't ignore a theory because you don't like it or its too nationalistic. We are all intellectuals here, you have to analyze it before you say something.

Oh and by the way the Indian gov't banned all research regarding proving the Taj Mahal as a temple.