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    Hauz Khas Complex in Hauz Khas, South Delhi houses a water tank, an Islamic seminary, a mosque, a tomb, and pavilions built around an urbanized village...
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    Abundance or Pool of Kawthar (Arabic: حَوْضُ ٱلْكَوْثَرِ, romanized: Ḥawḍ al-Kawthar) refers to a pond or river that exists in Paradise. The traditional...
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    raise a little an edifice of the madrasah on a platform. Lab-i Hauz Complex (or Lab-e hauz, Persian: لب حوض, meaning by the pond) Ensemble (1568–1622) is...
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  • (1052 AH). His mausoleum exists at the edge of Hauz-i-Shamsi near Qutub Minar, Mehrauli, Delhi. Akhbar al Akhyar, 16th Century. Urdu Edition 1990. Sharh...
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  • inspiration for the later Sayyid and Lodi tombs. Firoz Shah's tomb is located in Hauz Khas (New Delhi), close to the tank built by Alauddin Khalji. Attached to...
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    of 15.6 metres. The Magenta Line has interchanges with the Yellow Line at Hauz Khas, Blue Line at Janakpuri West & Botanical Garden and the Violet Line...
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    between the two was not sexual. In 1296, Alauddin constructed the Hauz-i-Alai (later Hauz-i-Khas) water reservoir, which covered an area of 70 acres, and...
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  • Hudhudi and the royal tank (Hauz-i Sultani). The modern identity of these areas is not certain; Hauz-i Sultani probably refers to Hauz-i-Shamsi. The Mongols...
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    construction of the Qutb Minar, which had been started by Qutb al-din Aibak. He also commissioned the Hauz-i-Shamsi reservoir to the south of Qutb Minar, and the...
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  • Nagar is a residential locality in South Delhi. Situated between Saket and Hauz Khas, its namesake is the freedom fighter Madan Mohan Malviya. Malviya Nagar...
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    incorporated into the Delhi Sultanate in 1227. In 1230, Iltutmish built the Hauz-i-Shamsi reservoir in Mehrauli, and in 1231 he built Sultan Ghari, which...
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    Mughal summer palaces in the area: the Zafar Mahal, the Jahaz Mahal next to Hauz-i-Shamsi lake, and the tombs of the later Mughal emperors of India, inside...
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    Devasthanam. She set up her dance training institute, Yamini School of Dance, in Hauz Khas in New Delhi. Krishnamurthy was a recipient of the Padma Shri (1968)...
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    of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq (d. 1325), Delhi Possibly the first "true" arches in India; Tomb of Balban (d. 1287) in Delhi Pavilions in the Hauz Khas Complex...
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  • al-khurj ( الخرج ) "saddle-bag", portmanteau[ʔlxurdʒ] (listen). alforre alforrocho alforza alfóstiga alfoz: Neighborhood, district. From Arabic hauz (حوز)...
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    2023. "Group Nominates Buhari, Security Chiefs For Global Peace Prize". LawHauz Media. 9 January 2023. Archived from the original on 2 March 2023. Retrieved...
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    a sovereign. At afternoon prayer the Mewatis would often come to the Sar-hauz, and assaulting the water-carriers and the girls who were fetching water...
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    four flowing Rivers of Paradise. The raised marble water tank (hauz) is called al Hawd al-Kawthar, literally meaning and named after the "Tank of Abundance"...
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  • for Jobs' 1974 trek to India. Locations include "Delhi's Jama Masjid, the Hauz Khas Complex, Safdarjung Tomb and Humayun's Tomb." Aseem Bajaj (Bandit Queen...
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    lodges. The Madrasa-i-Firozshahi was built by Sultan Firoz Shah Tughlaq near Hauz-i-Alai. Its architecture was said to be so appealing to locals that they...
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    Tughlaqabad Fort Sultan Feroze Shah Tughlaq's tomb with adjoining Madrassa, in Hauz Khas Complex, Delhi. Feroze Shah Kotla ruins, painted in 1802. West Gate...
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  • month of Zulqada in the year 1285 Hijri (February–March 1868) in the Lyab-i Hauz in Istemurbi guzari." This document is confirmed with the seal of Qazi Abduhamid...
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    Architectural Digest India. 26 August 2017. Retrieved 5 March 2020. "When Hauz Khas ruins, kund steps and gopuram gateways inspired BV Doshi to design NIFT...
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    had been rare or unknown in Islamic buildings. He was buried in the large Hauz Khas Complex in Delhi, with many other buildings from his period and the...
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    on the World Heritage List (1991). The astronomer, historian and polymath, Al-Biruni (973–1048 CE) was born in either Khiva or the nearby city of Kath....
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    King's face—the Jews are collected, and a number of them are flung into the hauz or tank, that King and mob may be amused by seeing them crawl out half-drowned...
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    this was achieved because of the prayer and blessing of Sheikh Shamsuddin al-Khavoriyyah and all the luck found only from Said Baraka". Therefore, Timur...
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    Samarkand. Among those he invited were Ghīyāth al-Dīn Jamshid al-Kashi, Mu’in al-Din al-Kashi, Salah al-Din Qadi Zada Rumi, and Ali Qushiji. Over 60 mathematicians...
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    Islamic University. At the entrance to the Sheikhantaur cemetery there was a hauz (reservoir) Lyangar. There were several chortoqs on the territory of the...
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    hectares approximately near Delhi University Yamuna biodiversity park Neela Hauz biodiversity park, next to Sanjay Van Sanjay Van Sanjay Lake Aravalli Biodiversity...
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