Khoja Akhmet Yassawi

Hodja Ahmed Yesevi (also: Hodja Ahmad Yasawi; * 1103 Sayram, † 1166 in Yasi in present-day Kazakhstan) was an important representative of Sufism ( Islamic mysticism ) and poet. On him the Yesevi - Tariqa comes back.

Life

Ahmed Yesevi is the grandson of Muhammed Bin Hanafi, which in turn is the son of the first Imam, Imam Ali the Holy of representatives from the Prophet Muhammad. His father Sheikh Ibrahim died when he was a little boy still and his family moved to the city of Yasi ( Today Kazakh city of Turkestan ). There he became a disciple of Arslan Baba, a known murshid ( Sufi teacher) of the local region. After his death, Ahmed Yesevi went to Bukhara to continue his studies there and was a student of Yusuf Hamadhani († 1140 ).

Later, after Hamadhani had died and Ahmed Yesevi still spent some time in Bukhara, he went back to Yasi and contributed to the fact that the site became a teaching center in the Kazakh steppe. At the age of 63 years, he retired from public life, and he an underground hermit cell dug, in which he spent the rest of his life.

His mausoleum was commissioned by the Timurid ruler Timur 1389-1405.

Swell

• Sufi
• Islamic Founder
• Born in 1103
• Died in 1166
• Man