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Also Known As Khurasan

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Major Events

Battle of Dandānqān

Related Places

Iran
Iran
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan

Key People

Al-Bīrūnī, Afghan commemorative stamp, 1973.
al-Bīrūnī
Persian scholar and scientist
Naṣīr al-Dīn al-Ṭūsī
Persian scholar
“The Building of the Famous Castle of Khawarnaq,” miniature by Behzād, c. 1494, from the Khamseh of Neẓāmī; in the British Library (OR. MS. 6810 fol 154v)
Behzād
Persian painter
Ghaznī, Afghanistan: victory tower of Masʿūd III
Ghaznavid dynasty
Turkic dynasty
Abu Muslim
Muslim leader
Sultan Sanjar and the Old Woman
Sanjar
sultan of Iran
Anvarī
Persian poet
Sīmjūrid Dynasty
Iranian dynasty
Yazīd ibn al-Muhallab
Umayyad governor
Ibn Bābawayh
Muslim theologian
Naṣr ibn Sayyār
governor of Khorāsān
al-Muqannaʿ
religious leader
Tahirid dynasty
Muslim dynasty of Khorāsān