LAHORE DURING THE GHANAVID PERIOD A SOCIO POLITICAL AND CULTURAL STUDY

Most of the historical documents and books are quiet about the art and craft produced in the early Muslim period of Lahore except for some sketchy information that we glimpse in different accounts. Before the arrival of Islam, Raja Jai Pal ruled Punjab. Mahmud of Ghazna conquered Lahore in 1021 AD. Hazrat Ali Hujveri, Husain Zanjani and Syed Ismael Muhaddis are worth mentioning scholars who lived in Lahore during Ghaznavid period. The city was full of cultural and artistic activities but the information about them is very scarce. An interesting source of information is the poetry written in that period by the poets of Lahore. These literary accounts give us references of architecture, painting, calligraphy, music and dance of Lahore