yasaviyya
Aḥmad Yasawī
d. 1166 CE (traditional chronology)
Turkistan (historical Yasi), Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan
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yasaviyya
Arslan Bāb
Traditional figure; historical dates unresolved
Talapty, Otyrar District, Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan
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Ṣūfī Muḥammad Dānishmand
12th-13th century; chronology uncertain
Associated in later tradition with the Otrar region
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Ḥakīm Ata
12th century; d. 582/1186 is a late traditional date
Traditionally near Qonghirat, Karakalpakstan, Uzbekistan
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Zangī Ata
13th century in tradition; exact chronology disputed
Zangiata District, Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan
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Anbar Ana
Medieval saintly figure; chronology unresolved
Zangi Ata complex, Tashkent Region, Uzbekistan
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Ismāʿīl Ata
13th-14th century; dates uncertain
Associated with the Kazygurt area, Turkistan Region, Kazakhstan
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Isḥāq Khwāja
Mid-14th century literary activity; exact dates uncertain
Associated with the Ismail Ata / Kazygurt teaching landscape
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Najm al-Dīn Kubrā
1145 – 1221 CE
Kunya-Urgench, Dashoguz Region, Turkmenistan
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Yūsuf Hamadānī
1048/49 – 1140 CE
Ancient Merv, Mary Region, Turkmenistan
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ʿAbd al-Khāliq Ghujdawānī
12th century; later chronology disputed
Ghijduwan, Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan
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Bahāʾ al-Dīn Naqshband
1318 – 1389 CE
Qasr-i Arifan, about 10 km northeast of Bukhara, Uzbekistan
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Khwāja ʿUbaydullāh Aḥrār
1404 – 1490 CE
Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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Sayf al-Dīn Bākharzī
1190 – 1261 CE
Fathabad, east of historic Bukhara, Uzbekistan
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Mīr Sayyid ʿAlī Hamadānī
1314–1384/85 CE (sources differ)
Kulob, Khatlon Region, Tajikistan
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Khwāja ʿĀrif Rīwgarī
13th century; dates uncertain
Riwgar / Shofirkon district, Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan
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Khwāja Maḥmūd Faghnawī
d. c. 1315; traditional chronology
Faghnah / Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan
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ʿAlī Rāmitānī
d. early 14th century; chronology varies
Ramitān, Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan
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Muḥammad Bābā Samāsī
d. 1354 CE; traditional chronology
Samas / Bukhara Region, Uzbekistan
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Sayyid Amīr Kulāl
c. 1281–1370 CE; traditional chronology
Sukhar / Yangikhayat, about 25 km north of Bukhara, Uzbekistan
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Yaʿqūb Charkhī
d. 1447 CE
Hisar / Dushanbe region, Tajikistan
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ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī
1414–1492 CE
Northwest of Herat, Afghanistan
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