Sign in

City

Saints and Tombs of Balkh

3 sourced records · 2 verified locations

The atlas holds 3 records for Balkh. Each record's sources and review status are shown on its own page. Breakdown: 3 Saints.

Map of Balkh

Records in Balkh

Saint

Ahmad al-Khatibi (Khatib of Balkh)

Ahmad al-Khatibi (Khatib-i Balkhi) was the elder of a renowned family of preachers and scholars of Balkh, the grandfather of Baha al-Din Walad (Sultan al-Ulama) and thus the great-grandfather of Mawlana Jalal al-Din Rumi. His son Husayn al-Khatibi was likewise among the leading scholars of Balkh (TDV, 'Bahâeddin Veled'). In the Mevlevi chain transmitted in Aflaki's Manaqib al-Arifin he appears as the link who received spiritual instruction from Ahmad al-Ghazali and carries the chain to his grandson Baha al-Din Walad (TDV, 'Mevleviyye'). He is known to have lived in Balkh in the 6th century AH (12th century CE), but his birth and death dates are not firmly recorded; what is known of him comes largely through the Mevlevi hagiographical tradition. As the location of his grave is unknown, no map pin is given.

BelhView
Saint

Rabia Balkhi (semi-legendary)

Rabia bint Ka'b al-Quzdari is regarded as the first woman to compose poetry in Persian and was a contemporary of Rudaki (d. 940/41). IMPORTANT: she is SEMI-LEGENDARY, later mythologized by poets such as Attar and Jami; the famous tale has her writing her last verses in her own blood on a prison wall. Her grave in Balkh lies within the 15th-century complex of the Naqshbandi Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa and is a modest tomb (the grave attribution is a later placemaking tradition). (Sources: Wikipedia 'Rabia Balkhi'; Cambridge/IJMES 'Unearthing Rabi'a's Grave')

BelhDied 329 AHView
Saint

Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa

Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa was a Naqshbandi spiritual leader and teacher of theology of the Timurid era, son of the famous Bukharan scholar Khwaja Muhammad Parsa. He died at Balkh in 865 AH/1461 CE. A grand mausoleum was raised over his grave by the amir Mir Mazid Arghun; now within the 'Green Mosque' complex, it is one of Balkh's most celebrated Timurid monuments. (Sources: Wikipedia 'Shrine of Khwaja Abu Nasr Parsa'; Wikidata Q6403414)

BelhDied 865 AHView

Nearby cities