Uzgen (Ozkend)

Uzgen (Uzkand/Ozkend), in the Ferghana Valley of present-day Kyrgyzstan, was a town of the Qarakhanid realm in the region of Transoxiana, with surviving Qarakhanid mausolea and a minaret. The Hanafi jurist al-Sarakhsi (d. c. 1096) is reported to have dictated his great legal compendium al-Mabsut while imprisoned in a pit at Uzgen.