Kaffal Shashi Mausoleum, Almazar, Uzbekistán
The Kaffal Shashi mausoleum stands at the northwest corner of the Khast-Imam square, a cluster of historical buildings that comprises the heart of old Tashkent. It commemorates the life of Abu Bakr Mohammed Kaffal Shashi, a native poet, linguist, polymath, and scholar who lived in the 10th century and traveled widely throughout the Islamic world.
Kaffal Shashi was born into a family of locksmiths (resulting in the name, Kaffal, which has the same meaning). As a young adult he travelled throughout the Islamic world, visiting Khorasan and then Baghdad, the capital of the Caliphate and the focal point of Islamic science and scholarship. In Baghdad Kaffal studied under the Persian imam Al-Tabari, an influential Qur’anic scholar and polymath.
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