Muhammad Quli Qutab Shah (1580-1612 CE) was the fifth sultan He founded the city of HYDERABAD.and built its architectural centerpiece,He was an able administrator and his reign is considered one of the better periods of Qutb Shahi rule.
He ascended to the THRONE in 1580 at the age of 15 and ruled for thirty-one years.
He modeled the most well planned city of Hyderabad on the then new city of ESFAHAN of PERSIA , in his words unparalleled in the world and a replica of heaven itselfMuhammad Quli Qutab Shah was the son of IBRAHIM QULI QUTB SHAH . Muhammad Quli Qutab Shah founded of the city of hyderabad as an urban center in the vicinity of his capital, the fort of Golconda. The city was built on the southern bank of the Musi river . Muhammad Quli Qutab Shah sent for architects from Iran to lay out the city, which was built on a grid plan.
In 1652, a French traveler Jean Baptiste Taveernier compared Hyderabad to orlands , well built and opened out, and in 1672 carre was much impressed by the city and termed it the center of all trade in the East.
The city of Hyderabad, or Bhagyanagar, was named after a local telugu
dancer named Bhagmati who lived in a cottage in the village of
Chichlam, where the great edifice of Charminar stands. Legend has it
that the young Sultan Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah loved Bhagmati dearly,
and once rode out from the golkonda Fort to meet his beloved, braving the flood waters of the Musi River. He gave his paramour the name, Hyder Mahal, and named the city after her. This story may be apocryphal; however, Muhammed Quli Qutb Shah is recorded as having married a Telangana woman named Bhagmati.
Muhammad Quli Qutab Shah constructed the charminar , literally four towers, in 1591 .
The structure comprises four tall and massive minarets connected to
each other by four high arches and this resembles the archetypal
triumphal arch. The Charminar stands at the crossroads of two broad
intersecting streets; the location defined the center of the old city
built by Muhammad Quli Qutab Shah. A mosque stands on the wide floor
created above the arches. Legend has it that Muhammad built the
Charminar to commemorate the end of a plague epidemic. He is said to
have prayed for the end of a plague that was ravaging his city and
vowed to build a mosque at the very place where he was praying. The
epidemic ended soon after wards and Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah ordered the
construction of the mosque which stands on the upper level of the
Charminar
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