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Shahshahan Mausoleum
Shahshahan Mausoleum is one of the historical buildings in Isfahan. It is located in the northern part of the city, beside Jameh mosque on Ibn-e Sina Street. The area around it is called Shahshahan Place. It is the burial place of Shah Alaeddin Mohammad also referred to as Sheykh Alaeddin Mohammad. His ancestors are traced back with twenty three generations to the Prophet Mohammad. According to historian Jean Chardin,[1] in the old days, this section of Isfahan was known as the area of Houseinieh, because it was believed that the great grandsons of Hossein, Ali’s son and Mohammad’s grandson lived there.

The mausoleum is an important shrine that belongs to the Timurid period (1370-1507). It was built between 1446 and 1448 by the order of Sultan Muhammad bin Baysonqor, the son of Shahrukh Mirza and one of Timur's grandsons.

Shah Alaeddin Mohammad was an Imam (leader), and highly respected by Sultan Mohammad as he was the most outstanding scholar of his time and as such was given the responsibility of checking the validity of Ulama (religious elite) who claimed to be Seyyed (descendants of Prophet Mohammad).

When Shahrukh Mirza was in Harat and Sultan Muhammad was appointed by him as the ruler of Isfahan, Sultan Muhammad started to disobey Shahrukh and basically rebelled against him. Shahrukh came back from Harat to Isfahan to capture him. But Sultan Muhammad managed to escape from Isfahan to Lorestan. Faced with this grim situation, Shahrukh angrily ordered the arrest and execution of seven of Sultan Muhammas's close associates, including Shah Alaeddin Mohammad.

Shahrukh exiled Shah Alaeddin to Saveh. Instigated by his Sunni wife, Goharshad Khatun, Shahrukh ordered the hanging of Shah Alaeddin in Saveh. According to recorded history, Shahrukh died eighty days after the death of Shah Alaeddin. Subsequent to Shahrukh's death, Sultan Muhammad bin Baysonqor came back to Isfahan and ordered to bury Shah Alaeddin's body in the Khanqah he had preached in. He ordered also to build the Shahshahan mausoleum on his grave. Shah Alaeddin's descendants have been also buried in the mausoleum, but their graves have been defaced over the years.