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Yaʿqūb b. al-Layth al-Ṣaffārī

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Progenitor of the Saffarid dynasty

Names

  • Arabic: يعقوب بن الليث الصفاري = Yaʿqūb b. al-Layth al-Ṣaffārī 1
  • Persian: یعقوب لیث = Yaʿqūb Layth 2

Attributes

  • Male

Temporal Data

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Event mentioned by Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī.1 before c. 1225c.1225877 A.H. / 14721995
Events mentioned by Nāṣir-i Khusraw2 c. 1050circa 106510th C Hijrī/16th C CE2001

Sources

  • 1Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī, Muʿjam al-buldān (Beirut: Dār Ṣādr, 1995), (2) 171 (3) 203، 222 (4) 261، 333 [Arabic].
  • 2Ya‘qub b. Layth: Nāṣir-i Khusraw, Nasir-i Khusraw's Book of Travels, ed. Wheeler M. Thackston (Costa Mesa, Calif.: Mazda, 2001), 123 [Persian with English translation].

How to Cite This Entry

Thomas A. Carlson and Mary Papadopoulos, “Yaʿqūb b. al-Layth al-Ṣaffārī” in Thomas A. Carlson, ed. Historical Index of the Medieval Middle East, last modified September 16, 2021, https://medievalmideast.org/person/12521.

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  • Thomas A. Carlson: Data merging and XML; abstract; gender assignment, matching, and transliteration from Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī’s Muʿjam al-Buldān; and matching from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
  • Mary Papadopoulos: matching, Persian collection and transliteration from Nāṣir-i Khusraw's travelogue
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