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C. E. Tate —Notes on the City of Hirat. [No. 2, 
The fifth is the tomb of Ibrahim Sultan, son of ’Alau-d-Daulah, 
son of Bayasunghur, son of Shah Rukh, son of Amir Timur, who ap¬ 
parently died in the same year as his father, viz., A. H. 863 (A. D. 
1459) 
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The sixth is the tomb of Gohar Shad, said to have been the wife of 
Shah Rukh and the sister of Qara Yusuf Turkman and the founder of 
the Gohar Shad Masjid in Mashhad. The inscription, which is as follows, 
gives the date of her death as A. H. 861 or A. D. 1457 :— 
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There is also a domed building, called after her name, in Kuhsan(?), 
bui it contains nothing to show how it camo to be so called. 
The Musalla was a huge, massive building of burnt brick and 
mortar throughout, almost entirely faced with beautiful tile, or rather 
mosaic work as tho various patterns woro all formed of small pieces of 
enamelled file compactly fitted together in fine gypsum plaster. 
Musalla means the place of prayer, and the building is said to have 
boon erected by Suit.&n Husain Mir/,a (the grandson, 1 believe, of the 
, the grandson of Amir Timur, who lies buried in the Ma¬ 
drasah), who ruled at Ilirat according to history from A. O. 1487 to 
1506. Sultan Husain Mirza iH said to have been buried in the Musnlhi ; 
- 
but now that the building is in course of demolition, any graves that 
may be there are buried many feet deep in the debris, and it is impos¬ 
sible to verify the statement. 
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