- was
believed the
Saffarids held
Kharijite sympathies.
Archeologist Barry Cunliffe,
states the
Saffarids were Shia Muslim. The
Saffarid dynasty and its...
- of Jazira, Thughur, and Jibal, and
effected a
rapprochement with the
Saffarids in the east and the
Tulunids in the west that
secured their—albeit largely...
-
later the
Saffarid emir, Ya'qub al-Saffar, also died and was
succeeded by his
brother Amr ibn al-Layth, who saw
himself as the heir of the
Saffarids. In the...
-
behind the
Saffarids before the battle, and this made a
retreat difficult; many men
drowned attempting to
escape the
Abbasid army. With the
Saffarids making...
- the
native dynasties to
revolt after the Arab
power weakened like the
Saffarids founded by the
zealous Yaqub who
conquered many
cities of the region....
- there. In 873, the
Saffarid Ya'qub
marched on Muhammad's capital, Nishapur.
Muhammad refused to flee and was
captured by the
Saffarids. For
three years...
- by the
Samanids in 900.
After the
Samanids took the
province from the
Saffarids, it
briefly returned to
Abbasid control, but in 917 the
governor Abu Yazid...
- Bosworth, "
Saffarids," p. 159; Ibn Khallikan, p. 314 Bosworth, "
Saffarids," p. 159; al-Tabari, pp. 170, 172; Ibn al-Athir, p. 261 Bosworth, "
Saffarids," pp...
- The
Hindu Shahi–
Saffarid wars were a
series of
military conflicts fought between the
forces of the
Hindu Shahis and the
Saffarids. The
predecessor of...
- and the
Abbasids allowed the
Saffarids to rule over Sistan, Fars, Kirman, and Khurasan. In 898, al-Mu'tadid set the
Saffarids and
Samanids against each other...
