Hafs ‘Amr ibn Ya'qub ibn Muhammad ibn ‘Amr (born 902/903) was the Saffarid amir of Sistan for slightly over a year (912–913). He was the son of Ya'qub, the...
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Pakistan and a small part of Iraq. He was succeeded by his brother, Amr ibn al-Layth. Ya'qub was born in 840, of eastern Iranian origin, in a small town called...
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governor of Herat. When Ya'qub died in Fars in 879, Amr managed to become the successor of the Saffarid throne over his brother Ali ibn al-Layth, who was the...
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long after Ya'qub's death. His brother and successor, Amr bin Laith, was defeated at the Battle of Balkh against Ismail Samani in 900. Amr bin Laith was...
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Abu'l-Hasan Tahir ibn Muhammad ibn Amr (883 – after 909) was amir of the Saffarid amirate from 901 until 909. He was the son of Muhammad ibn Amr. During Tahir's...
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Al-Jahiz (redirect from Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani)
Abu Uthman Amr ibn Bahr al-Kinani al-Basri (Arabic: أبو عثمان عمرو بن بحر الكناني البصري, romanized: Abū ʿUthman ʿAmr ibn Baḥr al-Kinānī al-Baṣrī; c. 776–868/869)...
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(911) Amr ibn Ya'qub, Amir (912–913) Ahmad ibn Muhammad, Amir (922–963) Khalaf ibn Ahmad, Amir (963–1002) Samanid Empire (complete list) – Isma'il ibn Ahmad...
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Al-Kindi (redirect from Abu Yusuf Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi)
Abū Yūsuf Yaʻqūb ibn ʼIsḥāq aṣ-Ṣabbāḥ al-Kindī (/ælˈkɪndi/; Arabic: أبو يوسف يعقوب بن إسحاق الصبّاح الكندي; Latin: Alkindus; c. 801–873 AD) was an Arab...
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the Tarikh-i Sistan mentions the captivity of Amr ibn al-Layth's (r. 879–901) two grandsons Tahir and Ya'qub in 908/9. Wasif died in 909. Bosworth 1993....
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The failure of Ya'qub to seize Baghdad in 876, however, and his death soon after weakened the Saffarid regime that his brother Amr ibn al-Layth inherited...
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