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FIGURE 20
Ulugh Beg Madrasah (1417) (www.bura.org.tr).
After the invasion of the Mongols, the complete revival of Bukhara
was not until the sixteenth century. Some nomadic tribes who called them-
selves the Uzbeks and who claimed to be the descendants of Uzbek Khan,
one of the grandsons of Genghis Khan, ended the Timurid sovereignty in
Bukhara and Samarkand under the leadership of Shaybani Khan. Shaybani
Khan moved the capital from Samarkand to Bukhara. Mir-I Arab Mosque
(Fig. 21), remaining from this period, was the only mosque used as an
educational center even in the soviet Socialist Republic. The mosque and
its madrasah were built by Sayyid Mir Abdullah as-Sairami in the years
1535-1536. Mir-I Arab Mosque has an entrance portal tiled with turquoise
ceramics (Uzbekistan, 1997). It is situated just across from the Kalyan
Mosque. Building two monumental structures across each other as if be-
ing reflected in a mirror was a tradition that belonged to Samarkand and
Bukhara.
FIGURE 21
Mir-i Arab Mosque (1535) (www.bura.org.tr).
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