Editing Qutb Minar complex (section)

== Alai Minar ==
[[File:Alai Minar 2022.jpg|thumb|Alai Minar]]
Alauddin Khalji started building the [[Alai Minar]], after he had doubled the size of Quwwat ul-Islam mosque built before 1300AD. He conceived this tower to be two times higher than [[Qutb Minar]] in proportion with the enlarged mosque.<ref>QutubMinarDelhi.com. [http://qutubminardelhi.com/alai-minar/ "Alai Minar"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150725173611/http://qutubminardelhi.com/alai-minar/ |date=25 July 2015 }} . Retrieved 5 August 2018.</ref> The construction was however abandoned, just after the completion of the {{convert|25|m|ft|adj=mid|-high}} first-story core; soon after the death of Alauddin in 1316, and never taken up by his successors of [[Khalji Dynasty]]. The first storey of the Alai Minar, a giant [[rubble masonry]] core, still stands today, which was evidently intended to be covered with dressed stone later on. Noted Sufi poet and saint of his times, [[Amir Khusro]] in his work, ''Tarikh-i-Alai'', mentions Ala-ud-din's intentions to extend the mosque and also constructing another minar.<ref>[[:File:Plaque for Alai Minar, Qutub Minar complex.jpg]]</ref>