The Cambridge History of India, Vol. III: Turks and Afghans v3.c30.s1.43

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Unfortunately, many of its finest monuments were ruthlessly destroyed or mutilated by Sikandar Lodī after his defeat of Husain in 1395, and of those which have survived there are three only of note that can claim to have been founded during the fourteenth century. These are the *Masjid* and Fort of Ibrāhīm Nāib Bārbak, which were built respectively in 1376 and 1377, and the Atala *Masjid*, founded in the latter year by Khvāja Kāmil Khān. Of these three, however, neither the Fort nor the Mosque of Nāib Bārbak is distinguished by any architectural feature worthy of remark; and on the other hand the Atala *Masjid*, though founded as far back as 1377, seems to have progressed little further than its foundations until the reign of Ibrāhīm Shāh Sharqī, who brought it to completion in 1408 and who was indubitably responsible for the character of its design.