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  "ar": "مسجد كالو سراي، دلهي",
  "en": "Kalu Sarai Mosque, Delhi",
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  "ar": "مسجد خرب على طريق مهرولي قرب مسجد بيگم پور في دلهي، بلا نقش، ينسب إلى الوزير خان جهان في عهد فيروز شاه تغلق، ويؤرخ بالقياس نحو 789هـ/1387 {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90}.",
  "en": "A ruined mosque on the Mehrauli road near the Begumpur mosque in Delhi, without an inscription, attributed to Firuz Shah Tughluq's vizier Khan-i Jahan and dated by analogy to about AH 789/1387 {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90}.",
  "ur": "دہلی میں مہرولی روڈ پر بیگم پور مسجد کے قریب ایک کھنڈر مسجد، بغیر کتبے کے، جو فیروز شاہ تغلق کے وزیر خانِ جہاں سے منسوب ہے اور قیاساً تقریباً 789ھ/1387ء کی بتائی جاتی ہے {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90}۔"
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   "note": "No inscription; the author dates it by analogy with Khan-i Jahan's other mosques",
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   "edtf": "1387~",
   "hijri": "0789",
   "calendar": "julian",
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   "status": "debated",
   "note": "No inscription; the author dates it by analogy with Khan-i Jahan's other mosques",
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   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Seema Khan 2011, printed pp. 90-92, 95",
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  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نظرة عامة",
     "markdown": "يقع مسجد كالو سراي على طريق مهرولي في دلهي بجوار [[building/begumpur-mosque|مسجد بيگم پور]]. {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90} ولا نقش عليه، لكنه عُرِّف مسجدًا فيروزيًا بناه [[person/khan-i-jahan-junan-shah|خان جهان]] وزير فيروز شاه تغلق، وتؤرخه المؤلفة نحو 789هـ/1387 قياسًا على مساجده المعاصرة. {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عمارته وحاله",
     "markdown": "بُني بالدبش والملاط على قاعدة عالية، وتعلوه قبيبات، على سمات الطراز الفيروزي نفسها. {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90} {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 95} وقد تهدمت أروقته الشمالية والجنوبية، ولم يبق منه إلا بعضه، وحين مسحته المؤلفة لم تجد عليه نقشًا ولا بوابة مدخل، ووجدته مسكونًا لا يُصلّى فيه. {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90} {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 92} وتنقل المؤلفة في الموضع نفسه وصف ظفر حسن وسيد أحمد خان لبناء مثمن على قاعدة عالية يسميه سيد أحمد خان «بدي منزل»، ويقول إنه كان برجًا من أبراج جهان پناه سكنه الشيخ حسن طاهر في عهد سكندر لودي ودفن قربه؛ وصلة هذا البناء بالمسجد غير واضحة في نصها. {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90} {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 91} {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 92}"
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   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "The Kalu Sarai mosque stands on the Mehrauli road in Delhi, in the neighbourhood of the [[building/begumpur-mosque|Begumpur mosque]]. {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90} It has no inscription, but it has been identified as a Firuzian mosque built by [[person/khan-i-jahan-junan-shah|Khan-i Jahan]], Firuz Shah Tughluq's vizier, and the author dates it to about AH 789/1387 by analogy with his contemporary mosques. {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Fabric and state",
     "markdown": "It is built of rubble and mortar on a high plinth and roofed with cupolas, in the same Firuzian manner. {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90} {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 95} Its north and south halls have been destroyed and only part of it remains; when the author surveyed it she found no inscription and no entrance gateway, and people living in it rather than praying there. {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90} {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 92} At the same point she reproduces Zafar Hasan's and Syed Ahmad Khan's description of an octagonal building on a high plinth, which Syed Ahmad Khan calls Badi Manzil and, on the authority of the *Akhbar al-Akhyar*, a bastion of Jahanpanah where Shaykh Hasan Tahir lived under Sikandar Lodi and was buried nearby; how that building relates to the mosque is not clear in her text. {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90} {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 91} {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 92}"
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  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "جائزہ",
     "markdown": "کالو سرائے مسجد دہلی میں مہرولی روڈ پر [[building/begumpur-mosque|بیگم پور مسجد]] کے پڑوس میں ہے۔ {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90} اس پر کوئی کتبہ نہیں، مگر اسے فیروز شاہ تغلق کے وزیر [[person/khan-i-jahan-junan-shah|خانِ جہاں]] کی بنوائی ہوئی فیروزی مسجد مانا گیا ہے، اور مصنفہ ان کی ہم عصر مسجدوں پر قیاس کر کے اسے تقریباً 789ھ/1387ء کی بتاتی ہیں۔ {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عمارت اور حالت",
     "markdown": "یہ ملبے اور چونے سے اونچی کرسی پر بنی ہے اور اس پر چھوٹے گنبد ہیں، اسی فیروزی انداز میں۔ {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90} {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 95} اس کے شمالی اور جنوبی دالان ڈھ چکے ہیں اور اس کا صرف کچھ حصہ باقی ہے؛ مصنفہ نے سروے کیا تو نہ کتبہ ملا نہ داخلی دروازہ، اور اس میں لوگ رہتے پائے، نماز نہیں ہوتی۔ {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90} {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 92} اسی جگہ وہ ظفر حسن اور سید احمد خان کا ایک اونچی کرسی پر ہشت پہلو عمارت کا بیان نقل کرتی ہیں جسے سید احمد خان «بدی منزل» کہتے ہیں اور «اخبار الاخیار» کے حوالے سے جہاں پناہ کا ایک برج بتاتے ہیں جہاں سکندر لودی کے عہد میں شیخ حسن طاہر رہے اور قریب دفن ہوئے؛ اس عمارت کا مسجد سے تعلق ان کے متن میں واضح نہیں۔ {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 90} {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 91} {cite:seema-khan-mosque-architecture-firuzshah-tughlaq-2011 p. 92}"
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