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Uch Sharif

Also known as Uch, Uchch

Uch Sharif is a historic town in the southern Punjab of Pakistan, near the confluence of the Chenab and Sutlej rivers. In the thirteenth century it was a political centre of Nasir ad-Din Qabacha and a refuge for scholars fleeing the Mongols, and it became a great centre of Sufism. Its tiled tombs of Sufi saints, from the fifteenth century, are its best-known monuments.

Uch Sharif
Image: Usamashahid433; Haris Bin Saqib; Ali Shah Asani; Kumail Hasan; Musab Bin Noor; Fassifarooq · CC BY 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Uch Sharif. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/uch-sharif
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