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  • 6 - The Great Lady and Her Hagiographers

  • Aziza Shanazarova, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    Female Religiosity in Central Asia
    Published online:
    25 April 2024
    Print publication:
    02 May 2024, pp 116-132

  • Summary

    Chapter 6 examines the narrative traditions surrounding Aghā-yi Buzurg’s character by exploring later hagiographical accounts about her. This chapter reconstructs the lore and public memory of Aghā-yi Buzurg and shows the continuity of people’s interest and moral investment in her legacy over the centuries since her passing. It closely examines the eighteenth-century Naqshbandī hagiographical compendium Tadhkira-yi Ṭāhir Īshān, which played an important role in the revitalization of Aghā-yi Buzurg’s remembrance in the second half of the eighteenth century in the regions of Khwarazm and Bukhara. This chapter showcases the vitality of Aghā-yi Buzurg’s commemoration in Central Asia in which her perceived sanctity retained its attraction over the course of almost half a millennium.