An Age of splendour: Islamic art in India, Karl J. Khandalavala, Saryu Doshi, Marg Publications, 1983, ... Though the concept of the Qutb Minar is based on the now ruined late ninth or early tenth century minar of Siah Posh in the province of Nimroz in South-West Afghanistan and was inspired by Ghiath-ud-Din Ghuri's great twelfth century minar of Jam also in Afghanistan ...
