Firozkoh
Firozkoh | |
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Type | Ancient city |
Location | Ghor Province, Afghanistan |
Built | Founded in 1146 |
Built by | Qutb al-Din Muhammad |
Demolished | Destroyed in 1223 |
Firozkoh (
History
The city was founded in 1146 by a member of the Ghurid dynasty, Qutb al-Din Muhammad. The Ghurid sultanate was brought to prominence in 1150 by
Throughout the reign of subsequent Ghurid sultans, Firozkoh continued to prosper as the dynasty expanded. Firozkoh was used as a summer capital, as the leadership of the Ghurid sultanate were semi-nomadic.
The Ghurid empire began to collapse after the successive deaths of Ghiyath al-Din in 1203 and his successor
It is also believed that the ancient city was the home of a Jewish trading community, documented by inscriptions on tombstones found in the 1950s. The scholar Walter Fischel published an article reviewing the finds and establishing the connections of the Firozkoh community with other Jewish communities in early Medieval Afghanistan.[3]
Sources describing the city
The primary contemporary source describing the history, layout, and buildings of Firozkoh is the
Recent history
It has been proposed that the
See also
References
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- ^ JSTOR 29756314.
- ^ Boissoneault, Lorraine (2016-02-10). "Afghanistan's Ancient and Beautiful Minaret of Jam". JSTOR Daily. Archived from the original on 2019-05-13. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
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