Silk RoadSufi Atlas
Central Asian Sufi Houses gathered as a living atlas of lineages, masters, sacred sites, manuscripts, healing traditions, and spiritual practice from the heart of the Silk Road.
Sufi houses of the sober and the ecstatic
From the loud Turkic dhikr of the steppe to the silent engraved remembrance of Bukhara — five doorways into the Central Asian path.
Kubrawiyya
Visionary light and the science of coloured lights
Yasaviyya
The Turkic path of the loud dhikr and the wandering dervish
Khwājagān
The path of the masters and the eight sacred sayings
Naqshbandiyya
The path of the silent engraved remembrance
Nursafardiyya
A living Central Asian path of healing, martial arts and Zikr
Shrines of the Silk Road
The path is carried by cities. From Bukhara to Turkistan, each dome and threshold is a memory of the friends of God.
- BukharaUzbekistan
- Near BukharaUzbekistan
- SamarkandUzbekistan
- TurkistanKazakhstan
- SayramKazakhstan
- Kunya-UrgenchTurkmenistan
- MervTurkmenistan
- GhujduwanUzbekistan
- KhivaUzbekistan
- Kulob regionTajikistan
A dignified index of the friends of God
Poets, martyrs, jurists, healers — the human faces of the tradition, from Ahmad Yasawī on the steppe to Bahāʾ al-Dīn at Qasr-i ʿĀrifān.
A searchable archive of Central Asian Sufi texts
PDFs, EPUBs, translations, manuscripts, guides, articles and audio — filtered by order, language, author, century, topic and format.
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The Nursafardiyya
A contemporary Uzbek Sufi path of Zikr, Sema, breathwork, sacred letters, traditional healing, herbal wellness and martial arts — carried in the wider inheritance of the Yasawiyya tradition.