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Sufi Atlas
Samarkand · Uzbekistan

Samarkand

Timurid capital, home to Khwāja Aḥrār and the Shāh-i Zinda necropolis of saints. The Registan crystallises the visual grammar of Central Asian Islam.

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

Timurid era and earlier

Associated traditions