Chār Bakr

by Wordsworth, Paul D.

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The Chār Bakr (locally spelt Chor Bakr), is a monumental religious complex incorporating the necropolis of Jūybārī Khwājagān, a prominent Bukharan family in the tenth-eleventh/sixteenth-seventeenth century. It is located in the historical village of Sumītan (Samatīn), about 7.5 kilometres due west of the centre of the modern (and mediaeval) city of Bukhara. The original spiritual importance of this location is traced back by ninth-tenth/fifteenth-sixteenth-century authors to the existence of th…

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The Chār Bakr (locally spelt Chor Bakr), is a monumental religious complex incorporating the necropolis of Jūybārī Khwājagān, a prominent Bukharan family in the tenth-eleventh/sixteenth-seventeenth century. It is located in the historical village of Sumītan (Samatīn), about 7.5 kilometres due west of the centre of the modern (and mediaeval) city of Bukhara. The original spiritual importance of this location is traced back by ninth-tenth/fifteenth-sixteenth-century authors to the existence of the shrine (mazār) of Abū Bakr Aḥmad b. Saʿd (d. 360/971) (Muʿīn

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  • Publisher(s):Brill
  • Language:eng

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  • wc:ALei1660

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eng Islam

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Wordsworth, Paul D.

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