ARCHITECTURAL EPIGRAPHY OF UZBEKISTAN ANDIJAN
Description
Most of the inscriptions included in the album was deciphered for the first time and used to restore the history of local architectural monuments.
For the first time, the names of donors, craftsmen, and construction dates were specified in chronograms. Inscriptions on architectural monuments are made in Arabic, Persian and Old Uzbek. The texts in Arabic mainly contain ayats and surahs from the Quran, hadiths, and various prayer formulas.
Texts in Persian and Old Uzbek are often poems, chronograms and dedicatory inscriptions. The inscriptions are written with the use of scripts such as Kufi, Thuluth, Divani, Naskh and Nastalik and various decorative techniques.
Among the monuments presented in the album are the Divan Bey Mosque, Jami complex, Jeddai Mubarak mosque, Gumbaz complex, Pansad mosque, Kipchak Kurgan mosque, Mahmadali Makhdum mosque, Halid ibn Walid mosque, Mirzakul Bulish madrassah, Ata-Kuzi madrassah and the mausoleum of Kuteiba ibn Muslim.