Ustad Ahmad Lahori

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Ustad Ahmad Lahori (lit. 'Master Ahmad of Lahore'; died 1649), also known as Ahmad Mi'mar (lit. 'Ahmad the Architect'), was an architect and engineer in the service of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. Shah Jahan's official chronicle names him, together with Ustad Hamid, among the architects of the Red Fort in Delhi (1639–1648). He is widely described as the architect of the Taj Mahal in Agra, but the identity of the Taj Mahal's architect or architects is not definitely known. Shah Jahan's official histories name only the supervisors of its construction; the only explicit evidence for the attribution to Ahmad is a poem by his son Lutfullah Muhandis, written several years after Ahmad's death.

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