Delhi, architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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Asher, Catherine B.
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Leiden
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Brill
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Delhi (Dilhī), located on the west bank of the Jumna River and bounded on three sides by the Aravalli hills, has been associated traditionally with the Indian capital of the first Afghan overlord, the Ghūrid ruler Muʿizz al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Sām, and his chief officer, Quṭb al-Dīn Aybak (r. 588-607/1192-1210), through the establishment of the Delhi Sultanate (607-932/1211-1526), until its demise in the early tenth/sixteenth century. Although not always the capital of the succeeding dynasty, the Mughals (r. 932-1274/1526-