The Silk Road
طريق الحرير
A trail along the Muslim Silk Road: Samarkand, Bukhara, Shiraz, and its travellers Ibn Battuta and Zheng He.
At a glance
- Region
- Persia & Central Asia
- Review
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Walk this pathway
5steps · 30min · newcomer · student
Samarkand
Its paper and blue domes: the Timurid capital.
Bukhara
'Dome of Islam': city of Bukhari and Ibn Sina.
Shiraz
Verse and gardens on the southern route.
The travellers
Ibn Battuta on land and Zheng He by sea.
Ibn Battuta, Muhammad ibn Abd Allah · Zheng He · Journey in quest of knowledge
To China
Xi'an's old mosque: Islam in China since the first century.
Do first:: Islam in Thirty Minutes
Overview
A path through the Islamic Silk Road: Samarkand, Bukhara and Shiraz, the travellers of the road Ibn Battuta and Zheng He, and learning travelling east.
Sources
- Wikidata
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islam.museum contributors. “The Silk Road”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/exhibits/path-silk-road/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-18.