خلاصه ماشینی:
T:1::- new type developed in Persia and Turkistan under the influence of T urkish and Mongol artistic conceptions and reached its final expression under the rule of the Timurid dynasty 0;: Saruarqand and Herat, Already under the Saljuq rulers we find a new type of funeral tower in the form of a tent; under the Ilkhans it takes the shape of the Mongol yurt, and since the splendid reign of Timur-Lang the bulbous dome of Central Asia reaches its per• fection.
An excellent example of the simplest and purest type of this Timurid mausoleum in India is the tomb of Asaf Khan, Jahangir's Persian minister, ar Shahdara near Lahore; it has even conserved part of its wonderful cover of glazed and coloured tiles which is so charac• teristic for the arr of late mediaeval Turkistan and Persia.
The tombs of Azarn Khan and Hurnayun, though of a Central Asian form, are decked with the rich mosaic work and stone slabs of different colours, so characteristic for the late Parhan srvlc which was taken over into the art of the Akbar period.
There exists no more perfect expression of the formal ideal of the Central Asian mausoleum than the Taj Mahal.
With the Taj Mahal the tradition proper of the Central Asian mausoleum in India had reached its end.
For the Taj had, in fact, become the perfect expression of the artistic ideals of Mughal India.