A Digital Atlas of Sacred Geography
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A Sufi shaykh who spread Islam among the nomads of Eastern Turkestan; mentioned in Ibn Battuta's Rihla. He died in China and his remains were brought to Samarkand by his son Abu Said. His mausoleum was built by Amir Timur in 1380; he is buried in the Rukhabad Mausoleum near Gur-e-Amir. (Sources: Wikidata Q4273779; meros.uz.)
Abu Isa Muhammad ibn Isa al-Tirmidhi, compiler of al-Jami al-Sahih (Sunan al-Tirmidhi) and al-Shama'il, one of the Six Books masters. Distinct from al-Hakim al-Tirmidhi. He died at Bugh near Termez. His mausoleum is in the Sherobod district north of Termez, dating to the 11th-12th centuries. (Sources: TDV; Wikipedia 'Termiziy Mausoleum'.)
Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ali al-Shashi, a Shafii jurist, hadith scholar and Quranic scholar; the epithet 'Qaffal' (locksmith) reflects the family trade. He died in Tashkent (old name Shash). His mausoleum (rebuilt 1541-42) is the historic core and namesake of the Hazrati Imam complex. (Sources: TDV; Wikidata Q1721026.)
A Yasawi shaykh whose real name was Ay Khoja; khalifa of Hakim Ata, in the lineage of Ahmad Yasawi. Buried in the town of Zangiata near Tashkent. The complex (15th-20th c.) holds the mausoleums of Zangi Ata and his wife Anbar Bibi plus a madrasa, mosque, khanqah and minaret; the main mausoleum dates to Amir Timur's time. (Sources: TDV; Wikidata Q2221662.)
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ali, a major Sufi as well as a Shafii jurist and theologian. His works on walaya deeply influenced Sufi thought; he founded the Hakimi current. He died in Termez. His mausoleum, on the Amu Darya northwest of Termez, was built in the 11th-15th centuries and restored. (Sources: TDV; Wikidata Q21655466.)
Youngest son of the Prophet's uncle al-Abbas, hence the Prophet's first cousin and a Companion. Among the early carriers of Islam to Central Asia; tradition holds he was martyred during the Samarkand campaigns (year disputed). His mausoleum forms the core of the Shah-i-Zinda necropolis; its tilework is Timurid. (Sources: Wikipedia; classical Companion biographies.)
Abu Mansur Muhammad al-Maturidi, founder of the Maturidi school of Sunni theology, also an exegete and jurist. Born in the Maturid quarter of Samarkand. Buried in the Chokardiza cemetery; the original tomb was destroyed in 1940 and rebuilt in 2000. (Sources: TDV; Wikidata Q4273745.)
Abu Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ismail al-Bukhari, compiler of the Sahih al-Bukhari, the most authentic hadith collection. Born in Bukhara, he died at Hartang near Samarkand. His grave is now the centre of a large memorial complex. (Sources: TDV; Wikidata Q12820736.)
First successor of Abdul Khaliq Ghijduwani in the Khwajagan silsila, known as 'Mahi Tabon'. Buried in Rivgar village (today Shafirkon) near Bukhara; one of the 'Seven Pirs' pilgrimage chain of Bukhara. (Sources: Wikipedia; naqshbandi.uk.)
A leading shaykh of the Kubrawi order and disciple of Najm al-Din Kubra. Buried in the Fathabad quarter of Bukhara; his 14th-century mausoleum is part of the Fathabad complex, adjacent to the Bayan-Quli Khan mausoleum. (Sources: Archnet; Wikipedia.)
A maqam attributed to the Prophet Ayyub (Job) near the Samanid Mausoleum in Bukhara — NOT a confirmed grave. Tradition holds Job struck the ground here, producing a healing spring. As multiple sites claim Job's tomb, this is a commemorative shrine; it also holds the grave of the muhaddith Khwaja Hafiz Gunjari (d. 1022). (Sources: Wikipedia; Wikidata Q4273796.)
A great master of the Khwajagan path who formulated principles later adopted by the Naqshbandiyya. Born and died in Gijduvan near Bukhara. His grave is in the complex beside the Ulugh Beg Madrasa, an active pilgrimage site. (Sources: Wikipedia; Wikidata Q1440603.)
The shrine of Sayyid Hamza, regarded as a son of the seventh Imam Musa al-Kazim (an Ahl al-Bayt sayyid). Though his lineage carries a minor dispute, he is accepted as a sayyid of an Imam's line. His death year is not reliably documented. In the Sheshgelan district of Tabriz, the shrine — famous for its mirror-work — is an active mosque and pilgrimage site. (Sources: Wikidata Q6003204; English Wikipedia.)
Muhammad ibn Abdullah al-Husayni al-Kirmani, born in Aleppo (1330), a Sufi poet and founder of the Ni'matullahi order, a major tariqa still active in Iran, India, the USA and Europe. He died in Mahan in 1431, aged over a hundred. His shrine in Mahan (Kerman province) is one of Iran's important pilgrimage sites. (Sources: TDV; ArchNet site 1637.)
Abu Ali al-Husayn ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina, one of the greatest scholars and philosophers of the Islamic world — physician, philosopher and scientist, author of al-Qanun fi't-Tibb and Kitab al-Shifa. He died in Hamadan in 1037. His mausoleum (Bu-Ali Sina) in Hamadan serves as a museum and library and is widely visited. (Sources: TDV; Wikidata Q5952145.)
An 11th-century Persian/Kurdish dervish poet of Hamadan, famous for his do-bayti quatrains in the Hamadani dialect. The epithet 'Uryan' (the Naked) denotes his asceticism. His death year is uncertain (roughly 1010–1055 CE); per Ravandi, the Seljuk sultan Tughril Beg visited him. His mausoleum in Hamadan is a national monument and pilgrimage site. (Sources: TDV; Wikidata Q5948926.)
Abu'l-Fath Safi al-Din Ishaq ibn Jibra'il Ardabili, disciple and son-in-law of Shaykh Zahid Gilani; he reformed his master's order into the Safaviyya order. He is the eponymous ancestor of the Safavid dynasty that ruled Iran from 1501. His shrine and khanqah ensemble in Ardabil is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Sources: TDV; UNESCO WHC #1345.)
Sayyid Amir Ahmad ibn Musa al-Kazim, son of the seventh Imam Musa al-Kazim and brother of the eighth Imam Ali al-Rida. Known as 'Shah Cheragh' (King of the Light); martyred in Shiraz. His shrine, famous for its mirror-mosaic interior, is among Iran's most important Shia sites. (Sources: Encyclopaedia Britannica; Wikidata Q1957722. Note: the 835/1431 date in some sources is erroneous; he was a contemporary of Imam Reza.)
Khwaja Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez Shirazi, the supreme master of the Persian ghazal; his Divan is among the most beloved works of Persian literature. He earned the title 'Hafez' for memorising the Qur'an. His tomb (the Hafezieh) in the Musalla Gardens of Shiraz is a major cultural and pilgrimage site. (Sources: TDV; Wikipedia.)
Abu Muhammad Musharrif al-Din Saadi, author of the Bostan and Golestan, one of the greatest Persian poets; a Sunni scholar and Sufi and a hafiz of the Qur'an. His tomb, built over his khanqah in Shiraz, is a national monument and pilgrimage site. (Sources: TDV 'Sa'dî-i Şîrâzî'; Wikidata Q326263.)
Daughter of the seventh Imam Musa al-Kazim and sister of the eighth Imam Ali al-Rida. She fell ill and died in Qom while travelling to join her brother in Khorasan. One of the most venerated women in Shia Islam; her shrine is a major pilgrimage site. (Sources: Wikidata Q1077077; English Wikipedia.)
Known as 'Hujjat al-Islam', one of the most influential scholars and Sufis in Islamic thought, renowned for epoch-making works in jurisprudence, theology, philosophy and Sufism (above all the Ihya' Ulum al-Din). Born in Tabaran in Tus and died there in 505/1111. His grave's exact location is DISPUTED: a memorial (maqam) stone stands beside the Haruniyeh Dome in Tus, the true grave lost after Mongol destruction. The coordinate is that of the Haruniyeh memorial. (Sources: TDV; Wikipedia 'Haruniyeh Dome'.)
Sheikh Muhammad Arif Abbasi, a Khorasani Sufi of the 16th century, born in Kardeh near Mashhad. Because he earned his living stitching pack-saddles (palandozi), he became known as 'Pir-e Palandooz'; also a calligrapher and a man of learning. His onion-domed mausoleum near the Imam Reza shrine was completed in the Safavid era (1577) and is visited. (Sources: Wikipedia 'Tomb of Pir Palandouz'; Iranian heritage records.)
Al-Rabi ibn Khuthaym al-Kufi, of the Tabi'un, renowned for asceticism and counted among the companions of Ali; named among the eight ascetics of Kufa. His grave is in the Khwaja Rabi mausoleum north of Mashhad, completed in the Safavid era (1617) within a garden, administered by Astan Quds. (Sources: TDV; Wikidata Q5957168.)
