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HĀMUN, DARYĀČA-YE
Eckart Ehlers, Gherardo Gnoli
(or simply Hāmun), lit. “lake of the plain, lowland,” a lake covering the deepest part of the Sistān depression and the Sistān watershed.
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EBN MORSAL, LAYṮ
C. Edmund Bosworth
b. Fażl, a client (mawlā) and governor of Sīstān 815-19.
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DERHAM B. NAŻ
C. Edmund Bosworth
or Naṣr or Ḥosayn; commander of ʿayyārs or moṭawweʿa, orthodox Sunni vigilantes against the Kharijites in Sīstān during the period immediately preceding the rise of the Saffarid brothers to supreme power there.
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ʿAMR B. YAʿQŪB
C. E. Bosworth
great-grandson of the co-founder of the Saffarid dynasty and ephemeral boy amir in Sīstān, 299-301/912-13.
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BASSĀM-E KORD
Z. Safa
the Kharijite (fl. mid-9th century), one of the first poets in the New Persian language, active at the court of the Saffarids.
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ABU’L-FARAJ SEJZĪ
M. Dabīrsīāqī
4th/10th century poet of Sīstān, author of several lost works on the art of poetry.
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ZARANGIANA
Cross-Reference
territory around Lake Hāmun and the Helmand river in modern Sistān. See DRANGIANA.
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ʿABD-AL-RAḤMĀN B. SAMORA
M. G. Morony
Arab general who campaigned in Sīstān (d. 50/670).
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ZRANKA
Cross-Reference
territory around Lake Hāmun and the Helmand river in modern Sistan. See DRANGIANA.
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AZHAR-E ḴAR
L. P. Smirnova
“Azhar the ass,” nickname of AZHAR B. YAḤYĀ B. ZOHAYR B. FARQAD, third cousin and military commander of the Saffarid amirs Yaʿqūb and ʿAmr b. Layṯ.