Treasures of the Great Silk Road by Edgar Knobloch

Author:Edgar Knobloch
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780752497921
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-04-01T16:00:00+00:00

This city was formerly the capital of the lands beyond the Oxus. It was destroyed by the accursed Chingiz and all but a few of its mosques, academies and bazaars are now lying in ruins. Its inhabitants are looked down upon because of their reputation for fanaticism, falsehood and denial of truth. There is no one of its inhabitants today who possesses any theological learning or makes any attempt to acquire it.31

The city wall encircling the outer rabads (suburbs) was first built in the ninth century and, like the present one, had eleven gates. The half-ruined clay walls, which can still be seen in some parts of the city, are of a much later date. They were probably built in the eighteenth century. Several of the gates also exist, with two solid wooden leaves and bastions of baked bricks. It was in the period of prosperity under the Samanids that suburbs of craftsmen and merchants spread all around the city and were subsequently encircled by a second belt of walls that according to some authorities, was over 100 miles long.

Anthony Jenkinson was obviously not much impressed by Bukhara, although he spent almost three months there, from December 1558 to March 1559.

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