Project Description
An outstanding monument of Sultan Kala is the mausoleum of Muhammad ibn Zayd. It is small in size, but admired the outstanding architectural design. The interior of the mausoleum has a unique wall inscription in Arabic. letters, skillfully carved out of burnt bricks, relief act against the background of the small vegetable pattern, made from plaster. Her transcript reads, that the mausoleum was erected over the grave of a representative of Shiite Islam Muhammad ibn Zayd, a descendant of the Caliph Ali fifth generation in 1112-1113 gg.
As a descendant of the Prophet's family, and therefore, contender for imamah, Muhammad ibn Zayd in the VIII century BC led a revolt against the Arab Umayyad caliphs. Shiites gathered around him recognized ibn Zeid their Imam, but after ten months of the uprising was cruelly suppressed, and himself Mohammed ibn-Zeid was killed. His body was nailed to the cross in Kufa, and his head cut off and sent to the caliph in Damascus. Initially tomb is a small tomb, where the head lay ibn Zayd, but gradually it grew before the magnificent architectural complex, which is now known throughout the Muslim world as the mausoleum of Muhammad ibn Zayd and is rightfully considered one of the finest examples of Islamic architecture.
Domed mausoleum, one of which is a higher scale and, than the rest. The architectural style of the monument XII. He admires the harmony and simplicity.
