Notes

1 Narshakhi, Abubakr Muhammad Ibn-i Ja'far-i Bukhari (889-959) wrote in Arabic. His major work is Ta'rikh-i Bukhara or Ta'rikh-i Narshakhi, which was written in Amir Hamid Abu Muhammad Nuh Ibn-i Nasr-i Samani. Narshakhi's work has been edited and published several times. For further details see Dihkhuda's Lughatname, Letter N, Fascicule 3, 1965 (ed.).1

2 We can consider the sections of the Avesta that are written in Zand and the parts that appear in the writings of Islamic thinkers as exceptions.2

3 Continuation of the rule of the Samanids from AH 260.3




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