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Ḥakīm Ata

12th century; d. 582/1186 is a late traditional date

Sulaymān Bāqirghānī · Sulaymon Boqirgʻoniy · Hakim Süleyman Ata

Geographic connection

Ḥakīm Ata shrine tradition at Baqirgan

Traditionally near Qonghirat, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan

Location under review; no precise pin published

How to read the record

Evidence & tradition

His poetic and saintly afterlife is substantial, but chronology, the limits of the personal corpus, and details of the succession narrative depend on later manuscripts and hagiography. The standard death date should not be presented as secure.

Textual connections

Works in the research record

  • Bāqirghān Kitābı (later collected corpus)
  • Ākhir Zamān Kitābı, attributed
  • Ḥażrat-i Maryam Kitābı, attributed
  • Miʿrājnāma, attributed
  • Ḥakīm Ata Kitābı (later anonymous hagiography about him)

Titles identify research connections. Full translations will appear only after their textual and publication review is complete.

Source trail

Research library

Devin DeWeese, Encyclopaedia Iranica, ‘Ḥakim Atā’; the 2022 Uzbek Latin Yasawī-Boqirgʻoniy edition prepared by Sayfiddin Rafiddinov and Nodirxon Hasan (private research copy); 1907 public-domain Bāqirghān Kitābı; TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, ‘Yeseviyye’.

Adapted from the Silk Road Sufi Atlas master catalogue. Shrine identification and traditional biography have separate evidence histories.