Po-i-Kalyan Complex, Bukhara

مجمع پای کلین في بخارى

Bukhara

Draft card for the Po-i-Kalyan complex in Bukhara — the great Jami' mosque and the Kalyan minaret; its inscriptions recorded in the Islamic Epigraphy Thesaurus include a 515 AH / 1121-1122 CE construction text on the minaret and a 948 AH / 1541-1542 CE decree on the mosque portal.

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Era
The Crusades, Ayyubids and Mamluks
Region
Persia & Central Asia
Identifiers
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Bukhara

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Bukhara

People and things also explored

Al-Biruni takes refuge at Bukhara· The killing of Sultan Alp Arslan and the accession of Malikshah· Battle of Baykand· Birth of Imam al-Bukhari at Bukhara, Shawwal 194/810· Al-Bukhari's first hearing of hadith at Bukhara, 205/820· Conquest of Bukhara· Russian Conquest of Bukhara· Sa'id ibn Uthman and the Bukhara Host

Sources

  • Thesaurus d'Epigraphie Islamique (University of Liege / Fondation Max van Berchem)
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islam.museum contributors. “Po-i-Kalyan Complex, Bukhara”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/building/po-i-kalyan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-08.

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Al-Biruni takes refuge at Bukhara

When civil war broke out in Khwārezm about 996–998, al-Bīrūnī fled to the Sāmānid capital Bukhara seeking patronage.