About the heritage places in sindh and related to architecture and town planning.

1. Architecture and Town Planning
• Prepared by: Ali Khan Mari
• Roll no. K15CE-19
• Department: Civil Engineering
• Institute: Muet SZAB Campus, Khairpur Mirs
• Submitted to: Sir JAFFAR Memon
• Dated:27th-September-2016

2. Historical Heritage
Places in Pakistan
Masura (Brahmanabad)

3. Muhammad qasim mosque

4. Historical Background
• Mansura (Arabic: ‫)منصورہ‬ )was the historic capital of the Arab empire
in Sindh, Pakistan during the eighth century under the Umayyad
Caliphate. The city now lies in Sanghar District situated about 8 miles
(13 km) south-east of Shahdadpur, Sanghar District, and 43 miles (69 km)
north-east of Hyderabad

5. • The city was constructed by Khalid ibn Barmak (705–782), a member of
the Persian Barmakids family. The city holds an important position in Muslim history as the
first to be built by Arabs according to the principles of town-planning. Seventeen years later,
lessons learned in Mansura were applied in Baghdad where there were once numerous
Sindhi inspired buildings and monuments.
• Mansura's history began under the Umayyad Caliphs, when Muslim Arabs attempted to
conquer the frontier kingdoms of India, Kabul, Zabul, and Sindh. In the early 8th Century,
with the Kingdom of Sindh convulsed by internal strife, the Arabs seized their chance and
renewed their attacks. Thereafter it was captured by Muhammad ibn Qasim, nephew of al-
Hajj aj ibn Yusuf, the governor of Iraq and Khurasan. Qasim's successors attempted to
expand from Sindh into the Punjab and other regions. Al- Masudi ascribed the foundation
of the city to Governor Mansur ibn Jamhur, the last Umayyad governor of Sindh. Umar ibn
Abd al-Aziz, who belonged to the Banu Habar tribe, the clan of Banu Asad, was the first
governor of al-Mansura. Under the Caliphate of al-Mansur, Khalid was appointed governor
of Fars and, after helping obtain Prince Isa ibn Musa's renunciation of his succession to the
caliphate in 765, became governor of Tabaristan. Around the same time, his son Yahya ibn
Khalid, was appointed governor of Adharbayjan.

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