Delhi Sultanate architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Asher, Catherine B.
Leiden
Brill
(3,387 words)
The architecture of the Delhi Sultanate (607-932/1210-1526) is associated primarily with Delhi, from the reign of Iltutmish, its first sultan (r. 607-33/1211-36), through the defeat in 932/1526 of the Lodī dynasty by the Mughal emperor Bābur. While centred on Delhi, the sultanate also included North Indian successor states that developed even before Delhi's decline caused by Tīmūr's sack in Rabīʿ II 801/December 1398. Sultanate architecture was revived briefly during the Sūrī interregnum, from 937/1540 to 962/1555, when the