A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c18.16

c18.16

The mosque colloquially known as 'the Kutb' is commonly believed to be named after the Sultan Kutb-ud-dīn Ībak (1205–10), and it is true that it was completed in its original form in the year A. D. 1198 by him while he was still Viceroy of Delhi and the Indian territory under the Sultan of Ghaznī. But the building is really named after a famous saint, Kutb-ud-dīn of Ūsh near Baghdad, who lies buried near, and is popularly remembered as Kutb Sāhib.