Sufi Map / yasaviyya

Zangī Ata

13th century in tradition; exact chronology disputed

Zangi Ota · Ay Khoja (reported name)

How to read the record

Evidence & tradition

The shrine and later successor tradition are well documented. Biographical dates, ancestry, and conversion narratives conflict across later sources and remain explicitly provisional.

Textual connections

Works in the research record

  • One poem attributed in later manuscript witnesses

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

Source trail

Research library

TDV İslâm Ansiklopedisi, ‘Zengi Ata’ and ‘Yeseviyye’; later Yasawi hagiography; Wikimedia Commons documentation for the Zangi Ata complex.

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