Little-known sufi complexes in the bukhara oasis During the 18th-19th centuries: Formation, architecture, typology
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Язык: английский
Аннотация
When studying architecture related to Sufism, many researchers have paid more attention to the brilliant architecture of khanqahs (a building where dervishes gathered) and complexes during their heyday between the 15th-17th centuries. However, this article aims to research Sufi abodes built at a later period using five building complexes as examples, three of which are poorly studied. Such examples include the Eshoni Imlo Sufi abode in Bukhara, which was destroyed around the middle of the 20th century, and the Khalifa Niyazkul madrasah complex from which only the entrance, now called Char-Minar, has survived. Only the khanqah
building remains from the Sufi Dehkon complex in the Bukhara oasis. Two other Sufi monasteries — Khalifa Khudoydot in Bukhara itself and Kyz-bibi in the Bukhara region — are relatively well researched, but some new information has been obtained along with their typological analysis. Summarizing and analyzing archival materials, information from written sources, publications by previous researchers, as well as additional data and information from her own field surveys, the author has attempted to identify the developmental stages,
layout, architecture, and typology of these five Sufi complexes and reveals some little-known data about the personality of an associated saint, client, and donor, as well as the construction history of each complex.