Mir Abu Turab's Tomb

Mir Abu Turab's Tomb, known locally as Qadam-e-Rasul ki Dargah, stands in Behrampura, historically Asawal, in Ahmedabad. Abu Turab was a Shirazi Saiyid noble who stayed loyal to Akbar after the Mughal conquest of Gujarat in 1572 and later served as Amin of the province. Made leader of the Mecca caravan in 1577, he returned in 1579 with a stone said to bear the right footprint of the Prophet Muhammad; Akbar is recorded as carrying it a hundred paces on his shoulders before it was placed at Asawal. Abu Turab, who also wrote a history of the Gujarat Sultanate, died in 1595 and was buried here. The stone was later moved to Khambhat.

The tomb rests on a square platform about 12.5 m across with a double ring of pillars, the inner one once screened by stone lattice. Arches replace flat lintels throughout, and twelve pillars carry the octagonal dome. The ASI restored it in 2002 after earthquake damage.