A furrier by trade, a celebrated wrestler and a poet of quatrains. Khiva honours him as its patron saint, and his mausoleum is among the most revered places in the city.
Key achievements
Wrote some three hundred Persian quatrains on humility, honest work and self-mastery
Remembered in tales from Khorezm to India as an unbeaten wrestler
His mausoleum is the spiritual heart of Itchan Kala, Khiva's walled inner city
