Dargah Shah Raju II

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Creator(s)

patron: Abul Hasan Qutb Shah (Indian (South Asian), active 1672-1687)

Time period

creation date: 1684

Location

Site: Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh, India)

Cultural context

Indian (South Asian)

Islamic

Description

Son of Shah Raju I, Shah Raziuddin better known as Shah Raju II came to Hyderabad during the reign of Abdullah Qutb Shah, 1626-72. Among his disciples was the future Sultan Abulhasan Tana Shah. Shah Raju II persuaded Abdullah Qutb Shah to marry his daughter to Abulhasan. Upon Shah Raju’s death in 1684, Abulhasan Tana Shah built a splendid dome over his grave in Ghazibanda, outside Fateh Darwaza. Extensive dalans, courtyards and masonry colonnades mark this three-storied Dargah of finely proportioned arches. A golden spire tops the dome affixed by Tahniyatunnisa Begum, the mother of Nasiruddawlah. Nasiruddawlah himself added a canopy and wooden litters. Within the dargah is another dome built over the grave of Sayyid Shah Shamsuddin, a spiritual guide of Shah Raju II. The dome dates from the time of Sultan Abulhasan Tana Shah. The dome is profusely decorated with Arabic and Persian inscriptions in Nastaliq and Thulus styles. The massive doors of the mausoleum are of highly polished black basalt.

exterior, exterior view showing the dome and the roofed gallery, 2002

Work type

Shrine (structure)

Tomb

Medium

basalt (basic igneous rock)

masonry

stone

Keywords

Cemeteries

Domes

Tombs