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Sheihantaur, the mausoleum of Sheikh Hovendi [1] at-Tahur, is an architectural monument in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. [2]
Sheikh Hovendi at-Tahur (Sheihantaur) was born at the end of the 13th century. [3] He was a sayyid, meaning that he claimed descent from the Quraish, the tribe of Muhammad. His father, Sheikh Umar, was believed to be a direct descendant of the seventeenth generation of Umar ibn al-Khattab, therefore male members of this family also bore the title of Khoja & Arif (Khwaja). Sheikh Khoja Umar was a sufi and one of the followers of Dervish Hasan Bulgari. He arrived in Tashkent with a mission to disseminate Islam. He then moved to the mountain settlement of Bog-i Ston where he spent the rest of his life. Thus, the birthplace of Sheikh Khoja Hovendi at-Tahur was Bog-i Ston [4] close to the Charvak Lake in the Tashkent Province of Uzbekistan. Young Sheihantaur was initiated into the Yasaviyya order of Dervishes in the town of Yasi (now Turkestan in modern-day Kazakhstan).[ citation needed ]
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The mazar (mausoleum) of Sheihantaur was erected in the 14th century, but its outward appearance has changed repeatedly over the years. The dimensions of the mausoleum are: 16.2 x 9 m. width, 12.8 m. height.
The mausoleum is surrounded by a burial complex to which the saint has given his name. Until the Soviet period the name Shaihantaur was applied to a whole district (locally mahalla) of the city of Tashkent. Many of the outstanding figures in Tashkent's history were buried here during the ensuing years.
One of them was the Hakem (chief of mahalla) of Sheihantaur, Yunus Khoja, the ruler of Tashkent when it was a semi-independent city-state in the 18th century.
Another remarkable person, buried here, was Alimqul Parvarchi - the Kokandian General who defended Tashkent against the Russians in 1864-5, but was eventually killed in skirmish before Chimkent, shortly before the two-day siege of Tashkent by General Mikhail Grigorevich Cherniaev in 1865 which led to the capture of the city.
Of the sixteen monuments of the Shaihantaur burial complex, only three remain intact. In addition to the mausoleum of Shaihantaur, the mausoleum of Qaldirghochbiy and that of Yunus Khan of Moghulistan are also to be found at that place.
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