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Shahshahan Mausoleum

Shahshahan Mausoleum is a engineering topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Shahshahan Mausoleum rather than just read about it. In short: The Shahshahan Mausoleum (Persian: آرامگاه شهشهان; Arabic: ضريح شاهشاهان), officially known as the Buq'ah-i Shah 'Ala al-Din Muhammad, is a mausoleum and hussainiya, located in the Ebn-e Sina district of Isfahan, Isfahan province, Iran. The mausoleum contains the tomb of Shah Ala al-Din Muhammad, or known simply as Shah Alaeddin.

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Reference excerpt

The Shahshahan Mausoleum (Persian: آرامگاه شهشهان; Arabic: ضريح شاهشاهان), officially known as the Buq'ah-i Shah 'Ala al-Din Muhammad, is a mausoleum and hussainiya, located in the Ebn-e Sina district of Isfahan, Isfahan province, Iran. The mausoleum contains the tomb of Shah Ala al-Din Muhammad, or known simply as Shah Alaeddin. It was built in c.852 AH (1448/1449 CE), during the Timurid era. The complex was listed on the Iran National Heritage List on 21 February 1949; and is administered by the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism Organization of Iran.

History Shah Alaeddin was executed by hanging in 1446 CE on the orders of Timurid ruler Shah Rukh for being a close associate of his rival, Sultan Muhammad ibn Baysunghur. His body was dumped in the town of Saveh. A year later, Shah Rukh died, and so Sultan Muhammad came to power. Sultan Muhammad moved the body of Shah Alaeddin from Saveh to Isfahan, and buried him in the old neighbourhood of Hosseiniyeh, where his khanqah was, adjacent to the Jameh Mosque of Isfahan. The Sultan also built a domed mausoleum for him over his new grave. During the Safavid era and the reign of Abbas the Great, the mausoleum was repaired by a woman named Khanum Sultan, also known as Banoo Sultan. She was not buried there, however, and was moved to Mashhad instead. The mausoleum received a revival in 1950, when a descendant of Shah Alaeddin, Hossein Shahshahani, repaired and rebuilt the mausoleum. He also constructed a madrasah and a health centre beside it. His work was assisted by his younger brother Morteza Shahshahani. He was buried in the mausoleum in 1962.

Architecture The Shahshahan Mausoleum is decorated both inside and outside with intricate plasterwork and tiling. All around the inside of the dome, there are calligraphy of fourteen poems in Arabic which describe the execution of Shah Alaeddin in the 15th century. These calligraphy works were done by Seyyed Mahmood Naghash. The lower section of the walls of the mausoleum are decorated with tile works that are hexagonal in shape. On the top of the entrance door, on the east side, there are three lines of poem from Saadi Shirazi, which are now barely visible and have nearly faded.

Endowments and related documents As part his respect to Shah Alaeddin Mohammad, after the construction of the mausoleum, Sultan Muhammad made several major endowments for the Shahshahan Mausoleum. They included, among others, the village of Esfehanak, the village of Valasan in Freidan and Darzian in the district of Kararag, or Keraj Rural District located mostly about few miles south on the road from Isfahan to Shiraz. These properties were primarily cultivated farms and orchards. The intention was to use the income, generated by these endowments, to pay for the upkeep and expenses of the restoration and rehabilitation of the mausoleum and the adjacent Hosseiniyeh. The scroll documenting the endowment of the aforementioned properties has been certified by several prominent scholars, including Sheikh Baha al-Din Muhammad al-'Amili during the Safavid period.

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Example 1 — a first encounter with Shahshahan Mausoleum

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Shahshahan Mausoleum claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In engineering, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Shahshahan Mausoleum before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Shahshahan Mausoleum ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Shahshahan Mausoleum

In research: Shahshahan Mausoleum appears in engineering research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Shahshahan Mausoleum in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Shahshahan Mausoleum is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 15th-century religious buildings and structures in Iran, Buildings and structures completed in 1449, Domes in Iran, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Shahshahan Mausoleum outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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