HAZRAT GIJDUVANIY MEMORIAL COMPLEX,🕍💫💥

May 11, 2023 About Sheikh Al-Gijduvani and his memorial complex Popular destinations to Bukhara The land of Bukhara keeps the ashes of many great figures of Islamic culture. Among them is such an iconic person as the outstanding Sufi Abd al-Khaliq Gijduvani (died 1180/1220). He was born and died in the village of Gijduvan near Bukhara.

Al-Gijduvani was a student of the famous sheikh Yusuf al-Hamadani and the founder of the Central Asian Sufi school "Hajagan" ("the way of teachers"). The followers of the Hajagan tradition were the Bukharian Sufis Amir Kulal and Baha ad-Din Naqshband, who gave rise to the teachings of Naqshbandiya In 1432 - 1433 Next to the burial of Sheikh al-Gijduvani, the ruler of Maverannakhr Mirzo Ulugbek (1409-1449) built a small one-story madrasah with a portal facing east. By area, it is four times smaller than the Ulugbek madrasa in Samarkand.

At the entrance to the madrasa of Ulugbek there is a small minaret, similar to the minaret of Kalyan. At the beginning of the XXI century, a modern memorial to Abd al-Khalik Gijduvani was built in Gijduvan. It is an exquisite wooden iwan on ten pillars with a blue dome, under which is the tombstone of Sheikh al-Gijduvani.Gijduvani memorial was founded at early 2003-s in the Gujduvan city, near with Ulugbekh Madrassah which was founded near to the tomb of Sufi teacher - Khodja Abd al-Halik Gijduvani Khodja Abd al-Halik Gijduvani lived and died in the countryside of Gijduvan situated near Bukhara. He was an apprentice of outstanding Sufi Khodja Usuf al-Hamadani and the constructor of Central Asian Sufi School of khadjagan - way of khodjas (teachers.

Supporters of "khadjagan" had to realize freewill poorness, ascetics and single blessedness as well as to refrain from contacting with respective authoritie Sufi Amir Kulal, Baha ad-Din Naqshband and khodja Akhror pertained to this tradition.s.)....a.a.duvani.