The Tarikh-i Sistan (History of Sistan) is an anonymous Persian-language history of the region of Sistan, in modern south-western Afghanistan and south-eastern Iran, from legendary and pre-Islamic times through the early Islamic period until 1062.
The Tarikh-i Sistan (History of Sistan) is an anonymous Persian-language history of the region of Sistan, in modern south-western Afghanistan and south-eastern Iran, from legendary and pre-Islamic times through the early Islamic period until 1062.
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The Muslim conquests of Afghanistan began during the Muslim conquest of Persia as the Arab Muslims migrated eastwards to Khorasan, Sistan and Transoxiana. Fifteen years after the battle of Nahāvand in 642 AD, they controlled all Sasanian domains except in Afghanistan. Fuller Islamization was not achieved until the period between 10th and 12th centuries under Ghaznavid and Ghurid dynasties who patronized Muslim religious institutions.
Zabol is a city in the Central District of Zabol County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran, serving as capital of both the county and the district. Zabol is near the border with Afghanistan.
Sistan and Baluchestan province is the second largest of the 31 Provinces of Iran, after Kerman Province, with an area of 180,726 km2. Its capital is the city of Zahedan. The province is in the southeast of the country, bordering Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The Saffarid dynasty was a Persianate dynasty of eastern Iranian origin that ruled over parts of Persia, Greater Khorasan, and eastern Makran from 861 to 1002. One of the first indigenous Persian dynasties to emerge after the Islamic conquest, the Saffarid dynasty was part of the Iranian Intermezzo. The dynasty's founder was Ya'qub bin Laith as-Saffar, who was born in 840 in a small town called Karnin (Qarnin), which was located east of Zaranj and west of Bost, in what is now Afghanistan. A native of Sistan and a local ayyār, Ya'qub worked as a coppersmith (ṣaffār) before becoming a warlord. He seized control of the Sistan region and began conquering most of Iran and Afghanistan, as well as parts of Pakistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Abu'l-Hasan Ali ibn Julugh Farrukhi Sistani, better known as Farrukhi Sistani was one of the most prominent Persian court poets in the history of Persian literature. Initially serving a dehqan in Sistan and the Muhtajids in Chaghaniyan, Farrukhi entered the service of the Ghaznavids in 1017, where he became the panegyrist of its rulers, Mahmud and Mas'ud I, as well as numerous viziers and princes.
Clifford Edmund Bosworth FBA was an English historian and Orientalist, specialising in Arabic and Iranian studies.
Iranshahr County is in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Iranshahr.
Khash County is in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Khash.
Zabol County is in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Zabol.
Saravan County is in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Saravan.
Nik Shahr County is in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Nik Shahr.
Sistān, also known as Sakastān and Sijistan, is a historical region in present-day south-western Afghanistan, south-eastern Iran and extending across the borders of south-western Pakistan. Mostly corresponding to the then Achaemenid region of Drangiana and extending southwards of the Helmand River not far off from the city of Alexandria in Arachosia. Largely desert, the region is bisected by the Helmand River, the largest river in Afghanistan, which empties into the Hamun Lake that forms part of the border between Iran and Afghanistan.
Oshida or Mount Khwaja or Mount Khwajeh is a flat-topped black basalt hill rising up as an island in the middle of Lake Hamun, in the Iranian province of Sistan and Baluchestan.
Abu Sulayman Muhammad al-Sijistani, nicknamed al-Mantiqi, c. 912 – c. 985 CE, named for his origins in the Sijistan or Sistan region in present-day Eastern Iran and Southern Afghanistan, was a leading Islamic humanist philosopher in Baghdad.
Dalgan County is in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Galmurti.
Konarak County is in Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. Its capital is the city of Konarak.
Tamandan is a village in, and the capital of, Taftan-e Jonubi Rural District of the Central District of Taftan County, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran. The previous capital of the rural district was the village of Dejang-e Bala.
The Muslim conquest of Sistan was the military struggle that led to the conquest of the Sasanian-controlled region of Sistan by the Muslim Rashidun Caliphate under the forces of the commander Abd Allah ibn Amir.
Rostam Castle, Nain - also referred to as Haozdar Fort - is a castle in the Hamun County, and is one of the attractions of Sistan and Baluchestan Province. This castle was built by the Safavid dynasty-Seljuq dynasty.
Sistan-e Sofla is a village in Jolgah Rural District, in the Central District of Jahrom County, Fars Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 52, in 13 families.