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  2. Qutb Minar - Wikipedia

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    The Qutb Minar, also spelled Qutub Minar and Qutab Minar, is a minaret and victory tower comprising the Qutb complex, which lies at the site of Delhi's oldest fortified city, Lal Kot, founded by the Tomar Rajputs. [3] It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Mehrauli area of South Delhi, India.

  3. A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and ...

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    Part 1 of the manual approaches the process of research and writing. This includes providing "practical advice" to formulate "the right questions, read critically, and build arguments" as well as helping authors draft and revise a paper. [3] Initially added with the seventh edition of the manual, this part is adapted from The Craft of Research ...

  4. Minaret - Wikipedia

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    The tallest minaret of this era, the Minaret of Jam, in a remote area of present-day Afghanistan, was built c. 1175 by the Ghurids and features elaborate brick decoration and inscriptions. [39]: 333 The Qutb Minar in Delhi, the most monumental minaret in India, was built in 1199 and was designed on the same model as the Minaret of Jam. [3]

  5. Islamic architecture - Wikipedia

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    The minaret is a tower that traditionally accompanies a mosque building. Its formal function is to provide a vantage point from which the call to prayer, or adhān , is made. The call to prayer is issued five times each day: dawn, noon, mid-afternoon, sunset, and night.

  6. Kufic - Wikipedia

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    The major differences between a linear and a spiral Square Kufic calligraphy are Spiral has a minimum of two and up to four datums ; linear only has a single datum, and Spiral allows letters to integrate at each corner of adjacent datums and across lines, and is only bounded by their outermost perimeter; linear letters maintain their original ...

  7. Iraqis are furious over their government's demolition of a ...

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    In the early hours Friday morning, the 11-meter-high (33-foot-high) minaret was razed to the ground, with the Iraqis are furious over their government's demolition of a minaret that stood for ...

  8. Sidi Bashir Mosque - Wikipedia

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    The Jhulta Minar, a part of the Siddi Bashir Mosque, is an engineering marvel of Indo-Islamic architecture built in 1461 CE. The three-storey tall structure, with intricate designs on each minaret, is famous for its built-in quality of swaying to the minimum force applied to its uppermost arc.

  9. Minar - Wikipedia

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    Minar may refer to: Minar (Firuzabad), a structure in Iran; Minar Rahman, Bangladeshi singer-songwriter; Ivo Minář, Czech tennis player; Thomas J. Minar, American academic administrator; Minar, an alternate spelling for minaret