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Arystan-bab (Arslan bab) - central Asian Saint. According to one version, a descendant of Imam Muhammad Ibn al-Hanafi, uncle and first teacher of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi. According to another version, the long-liver, a companion of the prophet Muhammad, who fulfilled the instruction (Amanat) of the prophet in respect of Yasawi. The mausoleum in the Turkestan region of Kazakhstan is a place of pilgrimage

The evalution of the image
Scientists believe that Arystan Bab is a semi-legendary figure of Kazakh mythology. His original cult was associated with water sources and the forces of nature. In its subsequent development, it went through four stages.

First phase
First, the image survived the impact kataritsugu (South Arabian) tradition. In the another version of the myth Arslan Bab was a contemporary of the prophet Hood, was a huge growth and lived 340 years. He knew the basics of 33 religions and eventually preferred Islam.

Second phase
The period of influence of the shiite sect chicanito did Arslan Baba a descendant of Imam Muhammad Ibn al-Hanafia (636-701), son of Imam Ali, and bestowed the title of "Bab" (which means a person who possesses an extraordinary knowledge). For example, this version sticks to the Mullah Musa, the AC, the author of the treatise "History of the rulers of Kashgari" and a direct descendant of Arslan Baba. According to his genealogy, the Saint is also the uncle of his disciple Khoja Ahmed Yasawi.

Third phase
Samarkand theologian Najmuddin al-Nasafi (1067-1042) reports that in the XI century in Farab lived a companion of the prophet called Yahya Ibn Nastur al-Rumi. He was over 340 years old, he passed 14 hadiths directly from Muhammad. According to a common legend, Arslan Bab received personally from the hands of the prophet rags and one date with instructions (Amanat) to give them to Khoja Ahmed, son of Shaykh Ibrahim, who must be born in Sairam

Fourth phase
At the last stage, Arslan Bab becomes the mentor of Khoja Ahmed Yassavy (1103-1166), the founder of the influential Sufi tariqa Yasawi. According to one version, the Saint was the eldest of the sheikhs of the city of YASA and became the first teacher for the young Ahmed, who later continued his education with Yusuf Hamadani in Bukhara.

Remembrance
He was buried in the mausoleum of the same name in Otrar (now Shaulder village of Turkestan region of Kazakhstan). Visiting the mausoleum and spending the night at the grave of Arslan Baba is one of the main stages in the pilgrimage (ziyarat) to the mausoleum of Ahmed Yasawi in Turkestan. Two more holy places with his name are known: one in the Bazaar-Korgon district of Jalal-Abad region of Kyrgyzstan (in 2003 there was found a document-genealogy issued to the direct descendants of Arslan Baba), and the other — in the lower reaches of the Syr Darya.

Literature

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 * Muminov A. K. Kokand version of Islamization of Turkestan // Ascetics of Islam: the Cult of saints and Sufism in Central Asia and the Caucasus / Comp. S. N. Abashin, V. O. Bobrovnikov. — Moscow: Eastern literature, 2003. — P. 141-144, 152. — 336 p. — 1 000 copies. — ISBN 5-02-018320-2.
 * .Muminov A. K. Shiite cultural influences on Central Asia (by the example of ‘alids ' activity) // Ars Islamica: in honor of Stanislav Mikhailovich Prozorov / Comp. and resp. edited by M. B. Piotrovsky, A. K. Alikberov. — Moscow: Science, 2016. — P. 691-692. — 871 p. — ISBN 978-5-02-039776-7.