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Sakastan Sijistan Sistan Sistān (Persian: سیستان), also
known as Sakastān (سَكستان, lit. 'the land of the Saka') and
Sijistan (سِجِستان), is a historical...
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caliphate and the
succeeding Umayyad Caliphate, and
caliphal governor of
Sijistan in the 7th
century CE.
According to Ibn Manzur, Ibn
Samura was a Quray****e...
- Sufi
saint and philosopher. Born in
Sanjar (of modern-day Iran), or in
Sijistan, he
arrived in
Delhi during the
reign of the
Sultan Iltutmish (d. 1236)...
- Sa'id al-Sijzi A page from Al Sijzi's
geometrical treatise Born 945 CE
Sijistan,
Saffarid dynasty (modern-day Sistan) Died 1020 CE
Philosophical work Main...
- the
commander Uqba ibn Nafi in 670,
while the
conquests in
Khurasan and
Sijistan on the
eastern frontier were resumed.
Although Mu'awiya
confined the influence...
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vizier Abu Ali Bal'ami ),
Nishapur (praising its emir,
Ahmad al-Mikali),
Sijistan (under
Tahir ibn Muhammad), Gharchistan, and
Arrajan (with
Sahib ibn Abbad)...
- (عبيد الله بن أبي بكرة, died c. 698-699 CE) was an
Umayyad governor of
Sijistan and a
military commander. He was the son of Abu Bakra, a
former Abyssinian...
- Arab-Sasanian coin
issued by
Ubayd Allah ibn Abi Bakra, the
Umayyad governor of
Sijistan, in AH 80 (698/9 CE).
Crowned Sasanian-style bust right, with the bismillah...
- (1097), 1337
Mahmud of
Ghazni attacks the
rebel fortress (Arg) of
Zaranj in
Sijistan (Nimruz province) in 1003 AD, from the Jami' al-tawarikh, c. 1306–18 Fortress...
- east of the
Great Desert. In this
larger sense, it
included Transoxiana,
Sijistan and Quhistan. Its
Central Asian boundary was the
Chinese desert and the...
