The Shah-Fazil historical and cultural complex is located in the village of Safed-Bulan, Ala-Buka district of Jalal-Abad region. The mausoleums were built in the 11th–12th centuries, during the Karakhanid era. The complex includes the mausoleum of Shah-Fazil, the mausoleum over the burial of the heads, the Safed-Bulan mausoleum where a girl named Bulan is buried, and the graves of other companions of the Prophet. The Shah-Fazil mausoleum is known as a trace of the establishment of Islam in the Ferghana Valley. According to legend, when the companions came to the Ferghana Valley in the 7th century to preach Islam, they were killed in the mosque. Later, it is said, 2,772 heads were found at the burial site. The history of Safed-Bulan village is also bound to the mausoleum. In the 11th–12th centuries Shah-Jarir, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, came at his grandfather's bidding with an army of twelve thousand to spread Islam among the people of the Ferghana Valley. Taken by the beauty of the land, they settled in Ala-Buka. Legend has it that after the bloody clash a young dark-skinned servant of one of the Arabs, named Bobolon, gathered all the severed heads and began washing them in running water. For this deed, pleasing to God, she turned from a dark-skinned girl into a fair-skinned one. Those who saw her called her Safed-Bulan — "White Bobolon". Since then the village where she lived has borne her name, Safed-Bulan.
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