page_title: Gawhar Shad
section_title: Marriage
hierarchical_section_title: Gawhar Shad / Life / Marriage
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Grab der Gauhar Shad in Herat, Afghanistan English: Goharshād's tomb in Herat, Afghanistan فارسی: آرامگاه گوهرشادبیگم، هرات، افغانستان
context_page_description: Gawhar Shad was the Queen and the chief consort of Shah Rukh, the emperor of the Timurid Empire.
context_section_description: Gawhar Shad was married to Shah Rukh probably in 1388, certainly before 1394 when their son, Ulugh Beg was born. It was a successful marriage, according to the ballads of Herat which sing of Shah Rukh's love for her. But little is known of their first forty years together, except what concerns her buildings. 
  Along with her brothers who were administrators at the Timurid court in Herat, Gawhar Shad played a very important role in the early Timurid history. In 1405 she moved the Timurid capital from Samarkand to Herat.
  She was instrumental in the construction of Herat's Mousallah Complex.
  Under her patronage, the Persian language and Persian culture were elevated to a main element of the Timurid dynasty. She and her husband led a cultural renaissance by their lavish patronage of the arts, attracting to their court artists, architects and philosophers and poets acknowledged today among the world's most illustrious, including the poet Jami. Many exquisite examples of Timurid architecture remain in Herat today.
caption: Tomb in Herat
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