Gawhar Shad (Persian: گوهرشاد, romanized: Gawaršād; meaning "joyful jewel" or "shining jewel"; alternative spelling: Gohar Shād; died 19 July 1457) was...

The Gawhar Shad Mausoleum, also known as the Tomb of Baysunghur, is an Islamic burial structure located in what is now Herat, Afghanistan. Built in the...

five Musallah Minarets of Herat, the Mir Ali Sher Navai mausoleum, the Gawhar Shad Mausoleum, and the ruins of a large mosque and a madrasa complex. Construction...

Shah Rukh's wife, Gawhar Shad, funded the construction of two mosques and theological colleges in Mashhad and Herat. The Gawhar Shad Mosque was finished...

Khanum, first female poet and astronomer of the 19th-century Qajar empire Gawhar Shad (died 1457), chief consort of Shah Rukh, ruler of the Timurid Empire...

tribe of Transoxiana (now Uzbekistan). His mother was a noblewoman named Gawhar Shad, daughter of a member of the representative Turkic tribal aristocracy...

ruler of Iran and Transoxiana, and Shah Rukh's most prominent wife, Gawhar Shad. In the view of modern historians, Baysunghur was actually a better statesman...

protective walls around the Gawhar Shad Mausoleum and Sultan Husain Madrasa, repairing the remaining minaret of Gawhar Shad's Madrasa, and replanting the...

building commissioned by later patrons in the city. Shah Rukh's wife, Gawhar Shad (d. 1457), was one of the most important patrons of architecture during...

(1417–1420). The most important patron of architecture in the 15th century was Gawhar Shad, whose constructions demonstrate a high quality of decoration and increasingly...