Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi Abu al-Mu'in al-Nasafi (; ; c.1027 – c.1115 A.D.) was a Central Asian Hanafi scholar who is considered to be the most important theologian in the Maturidi school of Sunni Islam after Imam Abu Mansur al-Maturidi, provided a fairly detailed ac ...

Memorial Complex is a cultural heritage object in

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. This object was completed during the X-XI centuries. The complex is located in Kovchin village,

Qarshi District Qarshi District is a district of Qashqadaryo Region in Uzbekistan. The capital lies at the city Qarshi. It has an area of and its population is 252,600 (2021 est.). The district consists of one city ( Beshkent), 15 urban-type settlement Urban- ...

Qashqadaryo Region Qashqadaryo Region is one of the regions of Uzbekistan, located in the south-eastern part of the country in the basin of the river Qashqadaryo (river), Qashqadaryo and on the western slopes of the Pamir-Alay mountains. It borders with Tajikistan, ...

. The facility is a state property and is implemented on the basis of operational management rights to the Abu Muin Nasafi Complex Management and Development Directorate. By the decision of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan on October 4, 2019, it was included in the national list of real estate objects of tangible cultural heritage – received state protection.

History

In the Mu'in al-Nasafi Memorial Complex, there is a well dating back to the 11th century and an old mosque built in the 13th century. Today, a new mosque, a library, an administration building and a museum have been built in the complex. In this museum, the life and works of Abu Mu'in al-Nasafi are presented through multimedia tools. Also, the original copy of the Holy

Qur'an The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God ('' Allāh''). It is organized in 114 chapters (, ) which consist of individual verses ('). Besides ...

written on ancient

Samarkand Samarkand ( ; Uzbek language, Uzbek and Tajik language, Tajik: Самарқанд / Samarqand, ) is a city in southeastern Uzbekistan and among the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in Central As ...

paper and verses woven into fabric are museum exhibits. The Qur'an was written in the Arabic language and

Nastaliq ''Nastaliq'' (; ; ), also Romanization of Persian, romanized as ''Nastaʿlīq'' or ''Nastaleeq'' (), is one of the main book hand, calligraphic hands used to write Arabic script and is used for some Indo-Iranian languages, predominantly Persi ...

script in the 17th century. It was found in 1968 between the walls of the

mausoleum A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type o ...

. The museum consists of 11 departments. The library was built next to the museum. During the restoration of the mausoleum of

Abu Mansur al-Maturidi Imam Abu Mansur al-Maturidi (; 853–944) was a Hanafi jurist and theologian who is the eponym of the Maturidi school of kalam in Sunnism. He got his from Māturīd, a district in Samarkand. His works include , a classic exegesis of the Qur'a ...

, the graves of many Islamic scholars were found. Rough stones were used as tombstones for their graves. It is known that most of the identified grave owners lived during the

Karakhanids The Kara-Khanid Khanate (; zh, t=喀喇汗國, p=Kālā Hánguó), also known as the Karakhanids, Qarakhanids, Ilek Khanids or the Afrasiabids (), was a Karluks, Karluk Turkic peoples, Turkic khanate that ruled Central Asia from the 9th to the ...

period. In the area of the

, researches were conducted by B. Bobojonov, A. Mominov, U. Rudolph, scholars of Islam from the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. According to the results of research, Chokardiza cemetery was found near the

. A total of 100 stones were found here. The complex reopened in October 2021 after reconstruction. A museum has been established in the

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, where historical monuments from Shahrisabz are kept.

References

{{Authority control Madrasas in Uzbekistan Maturidi

History

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