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Sufi Atlas
The Registan of Samarkand at night, tilework of lapis and gold
Central Asian Sufism

Sufi Atlas

Central Asian Sufi traditions gathered through lineages, masters, sacred sites, manuscripts, intellectual history, and living communities.

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Orders
22
Masters
12
Sacred Sites
11
Epochs
Sacred Geography

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.

  • Near Bukhara
    Uzbekistan
  • Samarkand
    Uzbekistan
  • Turkistan
    Kazakhstan
  • Sayram
    Kazakhstan
  • Kunya-Urgench
    Turkmenistan
  • Merv
    Turkmenistan
  • Ghujduwan
    Uzbekistan
  • Khiva
    Uzbekistan
  • Kulob region
    Tajikistan
  • Balkh
    Afghanistan
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Illustrated map of Silk Road Sufi cities
Sufi Atlas
Masters of the Path

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.

Aḥmad Yasawī
d. 1166 CE (traditional chronology) · Sayram, Yesi (Turkistan), Bukhara
Arslan Bāb
Traditional figure; historical dates unresolved · Otrar oasis, southern Kazakhstan
Ṣūfī Muḥammad Dānishmand
12th-13th century; chronology uncertain · Otrar region / Transoxiana
Ḥakīm Ata
12th century; d. 582/1186 is a late traditional date · Khwarazm and the lower Amu Darya / Aral region
Zangī Ata
13th century in tradition; exact chronology disputed · Tashkent oasis
Anbar Ana
Medieval saintly figure; chronology unresolved · Khwarazm and Tashkent in later tradition
Ismāʿīl Ata
13th-14th century; dates uncertain · Kazygurt / southern Kazakhstan and Transoxiana
Isḥāq Khwāja
Mid-14th century literary activity; exact dates uncertain · Kazygurt / Transoxiana
Najm al-Dīn Kubrā
1145 – 1221 CE · Khwarazm (Kunya-Urgench)
Yūsuf Hamadānī
1048/49 – 1140 CE · Merv, Bukhara
ʿAbd al-Khāliq Ghujdawānī
12th century; later chronology disputed · Ghujduwan, near Bukhara
Bahāʾ al-Dīn Naqshband
1318 – 1389 CE · Qasr-i ʿĀrifān, near Bukhara
Khwāja ʿUbaydullāh Aḥrār
1404 – 1490 CE · Samarkand
Sayf al-Dīn Bākharzī
1190 – 1261 CE · Bukhara
Mīr Sayyid ʿAlī Hamadānī
1314 – 1384 CE · Hamadan, Khuttalan, Kashmir
Khwāja ʿĀrif Rīwgarī
13th century; dates uncertain · Riwgar (Shofirkon), Bukhara oasis
Khwāja Maḥmūd Faghnawī
d. c. 1315; traditional chronology · Faghnah, Bukhara oasis
ʿAlī Rāmitānī
d. early 14th century; chronology varies · Ramitān, near Bukhara
Muḥammad Bābā Samāsī
d. 1354 CE; traditional chronology · Samās, Bukhara oasis
Sayyid Amīr Kulāl
c. 1281–1370 CE; traditional chronology · Sukhar, near Bukhara
Yaʿqūb Charkhī
d. 1447 CE · Charkh, Logar; Herat and Transoxiana
ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Jāmī
1414–1492 CE · Jam, Samarqand, Herat
Library & Downloads

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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A Living Tradition

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.

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