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Why the mosque’s early arches were corbelled, not true

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1. Why did local Hindu masons build only corbelled, “false” arches at the Quwwat-ul-Islam Mosque around the 1190s CE, rather than true arches?

They lacked suitable stone at the site

They were unfamiliar with true arch construction

Sultanate rulers banned true arches at the time

True arches were considered religiously forbidden

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