The Tomb of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi

Posted on at


The Tomb of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi

 

 

The Tomb of Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi is an unfinished tomb in the city of Turkestan, in south of  Kazakhstan. Khawaja Ahmed Yasawi, additionally spelled as Khawajah Akhmet Yassawi, was the twelfth century leader of a local school of Sufism, a magical development in Islam which started in the ninth century. He was conceived in Ispidjab in 1093, and used the majority of his life in Yasi, passing on there in 1166. He is generally adored in Central Asia and the Turkic-talking world for advancing Sufism, which maintained the dispersion of Islam in the range regardless of the contemporary invasion of the Mongol intrusion. The philosophical school he made transformed Yasi into the most critical medieval illuminating focus of the range. He was likewise a remarkable artist, scholar and statesman. Yasawi was entombed in a little mausoleum, which turned into a journey site for Muslims. The development of the mausoleum gave vital advances in building innovation, showing magnificent records of numerous types as far as its vaulted developments and masterful advancements. The accomplishments inferred from the mausoleum's erection, together with the Timurids' support of music, calligraphy, Persian small scale painting, writing, and different logical interests, conceived an unique Islamic aesthetic style, to be known as Timurid.the mausoleum is in this manner seen as a model, denoting the start of another engineering style, which reached a state of perfection in the landmarks of Samarkand,but was additionally persistently created as on account of India's Mughal Architecture. Without a doubt, the Timurids' remarkable accomplishment in construction modeling is exemplified in an Arab saying from one of Timur's structures, "In the event that you need to think about us, watch our structures."



160