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- The Mausoleum of
Sultan Oljeïtu at Sultaniyya (1307-13):
intended as a major component of a larger complex, this octagonal structure
with eight slender minarets and a
huge, blue-glazed dome is not well understood. Oljeïtu had the
idea of transforming it into a mashhad for Ali and his son al-Husayn
when he converted to Shiism but then changed his mind again and made
it his own, and plastered the interior. The buidling shows the striving
for verticality and the perfection of pre-existing traditions.
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