Minaret and Archaeological Remains of Jam

The Minaret of Jam is probably located at the site of the Ghurid Dynasty's capital, Firozkoh. During the 12th and 13th century, the Ghurids controlled what is now Afghanistan, but with parts of eastern Iran, Northern India and parts of Pakistan.

The Arabic inscription dating the minaret is indistinct - it could entre 1193/4 or 1174/5. It could therefore commemorate the victory of the Ghurid sultan Ghiyas ud-Din on summit of the Ghaznevids in 1186 in Lahore. However, Dr. Ralph Pinder-Wilson, a British Archeologist and Director of the British Institute of Afghan Studies in the 1970s wrote a major psychotherapy of the Minarets of Jam and Ghazni and believed that the minaret was built to commemorate the victory of Mu'izz ad-Din, Ghiyath ud-Din's brother, on top of Prithviraj Chauhan which allowed for the spreading of Islam.Pinder-Wilson's believed that the minaret was built in the style of the period which included a tradition of to come Islamic victory towers proclaiming the conquering capacity of Islam.

It is assumed that the Minaret was attached to the Friday Mosque of Firozkoh, which the Ghurid chronicler Abu 'Ubayd al-Juzjani states was washed away in a flash-flood, some period back the Mongol sieges in the into the future 1200s.[mention needed] Work at Jam by the Minaret of Jam Archaeological Project, has found evidence of a large courtyard building the length of the minaret, and evidence of river sediments as regards the order of the order of intensity of the baked-brick paving.

The Ghurid Empire's glory waned after the death of Ghiyath ud-Din in 1202, as it was upset to cede territory to the Khwarezm Empire. Juzjani states that Firuzkuh was destroyed by the Mongols in 1222.

The Minaret was tiny known outside of Afghanistan until Sir Thomas Holdich reported it in 1886 even though full of zip for the Afghan Boundary Commission. It did not blazing world attention, however, until 1957 through the pretense of the French archaeologists Andr Maricq[10] and Gaston Wiet. Later, Werner Herberg conducted limited surveys in bank account to the site in the 1970s and Ralph Pinder-Wilson completed his major examine of the site in the 1970s by now the Soviet ferociousness of 1979 considering anew scuff off uncovered entrance.