Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasavi.

Ahmed Yesevi (also spelled Ahmad Yasawi), born in Sayram (now in Kazakhstan), died 1166, Yasi, Turkestan, Turkic^[1] poet and Sufi (Muslim mystic), an early mystic who exerted a powerful influence on the development of mystical orders throughout the Turkic-speaking world. Image File history File links Ysavi_Mausoleum. ... Image File history File links Ysavi_Mausoleum. ... A view of the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasavi in Turkestan, Kazakhstan. ... The Mazar of Shaikh Ahmad Yasavi in the town of Turkestan. ... Map of Turkestan (green) with borders of modern states in white Turkestan (Persian: ترکستان ) (also spelled Turkistan or Türkistan) is a region in Central Asia, which today is largely inhabited by Turkic people. ... This article is about the various peoples speaking one of the Turkic languages. ... Sufism (Arabic تصوف taṣawwuf) is a system of esoteric philosophy commonly associated with Islam. ... The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China with an estimated 140 million native speakers and tens of millions of second-language speakers. ...

Very little is known about his life, but legends indicate that his father died when the boy was young and his family moved to Yasi. He made the city into the major centre of learning for the Kazakh steppes, then retired to a life of contemplation aged 63. He dug himself an underground cell where he spent the rest of his life.

A mausoleum was later built on the site of his grave by Timur the Great in the city (today called Türkistan). A view of the Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasavi in Turkestan, Kazakhstan. ... Statue of Timur in Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan TÄ«mÅ«r bin Taraghay Barlas (Chagatai Turkic: تیمور, iron) (1336 – February 1405) was a 14th century warlord of Turco-Mongol descent[1][2][3], conqueror of much of Western and central Asia, and founder of the Timurid Empire (1370–1405) in Central Asia and... The Mazar of Shaikh Ahmad Yasavi in the town of Turkestan. ...

References

1. ^ Islam in the Soviet Union: From the Second World War to Perestroika