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Tahirid dynasty - definition of Tahirid dynasty in Encyclopedia (137 words) |
 | The Tahirid dynasty ruled the northeastern Persian region of Khorasan between AD The Tahirid capital was Nishapur. |
| The dynasty was founded by Tahir ibn Husayn, a leading general in the service of the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun. |
| The Tahirids were overthrown in 873 by the Saffarid dynasty, who annexed Khorasan to their own empire in eastern Persia. |
| Saffarid dynasty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (199 words) |
| The Saffarid dynasty of Persia ruled a short-lived empire centred on Seistan, a border district between modern-day Afghanistan and Iran, between 861-1003. |
| The dynasty was founded by – and took its name from – Ya'qub bin Laith as-Saffar, a man of humble origins who rose from an obscure beginning as a coppersmith (saffar) in eastern Iran. |
| By the time of his death, he had conquered Khorasan (thus ending that region's Tahirid dynasty) as well as parts of northern India and western Iran, nearly reaching Baghdad. |
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