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Sufi Atlas
Near Bukhara · Uzbekistan

Qasr-i ʿĀrifān

The shrine of Khwāja Bahāʾ al-Dīn Naqshband, principal ziyāra of the Naqshbandiyya.

Sacred geography record

A place within a network

The Atlas treats a shrine or sacred city as more than a destination. It is a meeting place of biography, transmitted memory, architecture, pilgrimage, and the communities that have continued to interpret it.

Historical horizon

14th century

Associated traditions