Monday, August 04, 2008

More Sufi shrines

The number of sites with Sufi connotations, commemorating saints with folklore-stories surrounding their life, death and sainthood, was striking. This was the Termez Munch Baba (Pepper dad, sort of). It made me believe that the orders have played an important part in Uzbek history and that a folksy type of religious every-day life has been more common than orthodoxy, even if they seemed unknown to people today.







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