The Madrasa of Mahmud Gawan is an ancient madrasa or Islamic college in Bidar, Karnataka, India, built in the 1460s and is an example of the regional style of Indo-Islamic architecture under the Bahmani Sultanate, founded by the prime-minister of the Bahamani empire in the late 15th century, it bears testimony to the scholarly genius of Mahmud Gawan, who first came to Delhi as a Persian trader from Gilan in Iran and moved to Bidar in 1453, Mahmud reportedly built the madrasa with his own money and it functioned like a residential University which was built and maintained on the lines of Madrasa of Khurasan, the foundations and the lower courses, at least, of the building are all jointed with thin sheets of lead, the tower (minar) has been faced with enameled tiles of different colours in zig zag lines round the lower half of it, portions of the walls, especially in the front have also been covered with the same materials, and a broad frieze along the top of the front wall has been inscribed with sentences from Q'uran in coloured letters on a ground of green and gold
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