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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)...

(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...

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...

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....

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...