ʿAnbar Ānā was a saint ( ānā , "mother" in Turkic) of Central Asia. Traditions about her, first recorded in the early tenth/sixteenth century, place her lifetime in the seventh/thirteenth century, and she is honoured even today in oral narratives and shrine traditions, focused on Kh w ārazm and Tashkent. ʿAnbar Ānā is first mentioned in the Naqshbandī hagiography, the Rashaḥāt-i ʿayn al-ḥayāt (Droplets from the Wellsprings of Life) completed in 909/1504; she is portrayed in the Rashaḥāt as the wife first of Ḥakīm Ātā, who is