Uzbekistan / Reading room

From books to places

A reading room for the Sufi landscape.

The essays are original syntheses from our library. A bibliography identifies a research connection; it does not mean that a saint’s words survive in an authenticated edition or that a working translation is ready for publication.

Research connection

Itzchak Weismann, The Naqshbandiyya: Orthodoxy and Activism in a Worldwide Sufi Tradition (2007)

Chapters 2–3; especially printed pp. 14–22, 27–31 and 34.

Selected pages inspected in the research library. Original editorial synthesis; no translation reproduced.

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Research connection

Silk Road Sufi Atlas — lineage evidence matrix

Khwajagan–Naqshbandi research dossier, reviewed October 2026.

Working research apparatus comparing remembered lineage, early testimony and documentary association.

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Research connection

Muhammad Parsa, Fasl al-Khitab li-Wasl al-Ahbab

1913 Tashkent lithograph; library edition and translation project record.

Bibliographic connection only. The Persian work includes Arabic material; the working English translation remains under review.

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Research connection

Silk Road Sufi Atlas — Kubrawi institutional-history dossier

Bukhara/Fathabad section; bibliography includes Devin DeWeese, “The Eclipse of the Kubraviyah in Central Asia,” Iranian Studies 21 (1988), 45–83.

Original synthesis from the library’s research dossier; documentary claims are distinguished from later shrine memory.

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Research connection

Silk Road Sufi Atlas — Yasawi master dossiers

Zangi Ata and Anbar Ana deep-reading records.

Research catalogue of devotional memory; not a verified corpus of writings by either figure.

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