{"id":12317,"date":"2022-11-13T04:25:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T04:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=12317"},"modified":"2022-11-13T04:25:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T04:25:37","slug":"search-of-sources-of-muhammed-yusuf-mimar-traced-as-father-of-ustad-ahmad-mimar-lahori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.chughtaimuseum.com\/?p=12317","title":{"rendered":"SEARCH OF SOURCES OF MUHAMMED YUSUF MIMAR; TRACED AS FATHER OF USTAD AHMAD MIMAR LAHORI."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SEARCH OF SOURCES OF MUHAMMED YUSUF MIMAR;
TRACED AS FATHER OF USTAD AHMAD MIMAR LAHORI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For reasons unknown secrecy surrounded the ancestry of Ustad Ahmad Mimar Lahori. Perhaps there were reasons to keep his name off the grid. The family was well known through architectural achievements and scholarly studies, but the ancestry was not mentioned in texts. And at times falsehood was generated by religiously bigoted historians. One such historian was author of “Munaqib\u00a0 ul Mahjabeen” namely Haji Najmuddin who treated it as Sheikh Ahmad son of Sheikh Hamid Siddique descendants of Hazrat Abu Bakr Siddique citizen of Khajband. This was stated in 1289 A.H, and differed with all documented historical accounts. No proof was given for same except heresy accounts of followers. Obviously, no one was there to say different, although Dr Abdullah Chaghatai sent his protests over that statement. And Ustad Hamid Mimar is treated in history as a brother, cousin, or even perhaps a son in law. One source affirms him as the son of Ustad Abdul Kareem Jahangeeri.\u00a0 Certainly, he was much younger to Ustad Ahmad Mimar as the Ustad died in 1059 A.H, but Ustad Hamid was alive even after 1070 A.H.

Turkish historians like Jalal Asad in “Turkish Sanati, 1928” have talked of two architects who came with Emperor Zaheeruddin Babar to Hindustan, namely Ustad Issa Mimar and Ustad Yusuf Mimar. It is up to us to search for these two in historical contexts. In Haryana scholars’ study two inscriptions found in Pirzada Masjid, naming Sheikh Yusuf as the builder of the mosque, built in times of Baber himself. Literally in ruins, it shows the advent of the double dome in the region. And in 962 A.H, we find the ruins of Shahpur Fort still there made for Ibrahim Adil Shahi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n