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The tomb, made of fired brick with a lime plaster, rises from a platform of basaltic rock, and comprises an octagonal lower section and a much smaller second tier topped with a large, blue-tiled dome. It is a sizable structure covering an area of about 59 square metres and reaching a height of about 24 metres. The largely beige exterior has ogival, or pointed-arched, niches of varying heights and depths. Glazed ceramic tiles, particularly in blue-green, adorn parts of the niches, while the soffits, or undersides, of several arches are adorned with muqarnas or honeycomb vaulting, bearing floral patterns in gold and lapis paint.
The lower section is crowned by a white parapet of decorative merlons running entirely around, with minarets rising from each of the eight corners. This encloses a smaller polygonal tier, which is topped by a solid parapet decorated with arches and punctuated by smaller minarets in blue and white. Over this rests a cylindrical drum holding the roughly 9-met
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Ahmad Shah Durrani
Founder of the Durrani Empire (r. 1747–1772)
"Ahmed Shah Durrani" redirects here. For the cricket umpire, see Ahmed Shah Durrani (umpire).
| Ahmad Shah Durrani احمد شاه دراني | ||||||||||||||||
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Portrait of Ahmad Shah Durrani, c. 1757, Bibliothèque nationale de France | ||||||||||||||||
| Reign | July 1747 – 4 June 1772 | |||||||||||||||
| Coronation | July 1747 | |||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Office established (Nader Shah as the Shah of Iran) | |||||||||||||||
| Successor | Timur Shah Durrani | |||||||||||||||
| Wazir | Shah Wali Khan | |||||||||||||||
| Born | Ahmad Khan Abdali 1720—1722 Herat, Sadozai Sultanate of Herat (present-day Afghanistan) or Multan, Mughal Empire (present-day Pakistan) | |||||||||||||||
| Died | (aged 49–52) Maruf, Kandahar Province, Durrani Empire (present-day Afghanistan) | |||||||||||||||
| Burial | June 1772 Tomb of Ahmad Shah Durrani, Kandahar, Afghanistan | |||||||||||||||
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| Dynasty | House of Durrani | |||||||||||||||
| Father | Mohammad Zaman Khan Abdali | |||||||||||||||
| Mother | Zarghona Anaa[1] | |||||||||||||||
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