Thursday, April 14, 2005

Muslim shrines in Tajikistan

Today I went to a talk on Muslim shrines in Tajikistan by a professor in our history department. Not much is known about these shrines compared to other shrines in the Muslim world. Most are from the 14th century and are the burial places of Sufi religious leaders. Tajikistan has Turkish and Persian cultural roots.

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