Chashma-Ayub
The spring of Job's conical memory.
The Silk Road in our tongue — Samarkand and Bukhara touching the heart.
Few destinations touch the Muslim traveler's heart like Uzbekistan: here rests Imam al-Bukhari, here Bukhara and Samarkand radiated proverb-grade learning and architecture — and today the country opens its finest touristic era. Samarkand's 10 (the Registan wonder, Shah-i-Zinda, Timur's tomb, the Imam's…
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The spring of Job's conical memory.
The serene complex the world visits.
The last emir's star-and-moon summer palace.
Centuries' bourses beneath the domes.
The forty columns mirrored in their pool.
The most perfect thousand-year building.
The beloved four-towered miniature.
The social pool since 1620.
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