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Sufi Atlas
Turkistan · Kazakhstan

Turkistan (Yasi)

Site of the vast mausoleum of Aḥmad Yasawī commissioned by Amīr Timūr — the most iconic Yasavī monument on the steppe.

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

12th c.; shrine 14th c. (Timur)

Associated traditions