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Afghanistan, Ghor Province, 12th Century Minaret of Jam, Kufic inscriptions

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Jane Sweeney

<p>Jane Sweeney is an English photographer who has travelled to over 120 countries in her prolific career. She has travelled extensively across Africa, Asia, South and Central America including hostile places like Iraq, North Korea, Libya and Afghanistan.</p>

<p>AFGHANISTAN, Ghor Province, 12th Century Minaret of Jam, Detail of decoration on minaret including Kufic inscription in turquoise glazed tiles..Discovered by archaeologists in 1957 but was its first sighting was announced by the Governer of Herat in 1943. An inscription round the Minaret confirms it was built by the Ghurid ruler Sultan Ghiyath ad-Din in the year 590 Hejira, (1193-3 CE - Pinder-Wilson 2001) Has Kufic script and verses of the Koran on the exterior and inside is a double-spiral staircase. At 65 metres high it is the second highest minaret in the world (after Qutb Minar in Delhi) Situated at the confluence of the Hari Rud and Jam Rud rivers in an isolated valley renown for Bandits, became a World Heritage site in 2002, Scholars generally agree that Jam is ancient Firuzkuh, the summer capital of thee Ghurid empire</p>

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