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    early Iranian dynasties of post-Islamic Iran such as the Tahirids and Samanids being based in Khorasan. Iranian philosophy can be traced back as far as...
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    Soviets in Afghanistan was run by Zia, not by us". FOREIGN POLICY. THE SLATE GROUP. Retrieved 25 March 2020. Crile 2003, pp. 131–132. "How Pakistan's...
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  • January 17, 2013. Retrieved February 24, 2013. "How accurate is Argo". Slate. October 12, 2012. Archived from the original on November 14, 2012. Retrieved...
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    Retrieved 2007-03-13. "Destruction and Rebuilding of the Bamyan Buddhas". Slate Magazine. Bergen, Peter. "The Osama bin Laden I Know", 2006. p. 271 "Local...
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    the Quran were done between the 10th and 12th centuries in Persian. The Samanid king, Mansur I (961–976), ordered a group of scholars from Khorasan to...
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    later via Volga Bulgaria and from there by caravan to Khwarazm, to the Samanid slave market in Central Asia and finnally via Iran to the Abbasid Caliphate...
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    slavery in the Abbasid Caliphate via the Volga Bulgarian slave trade and the Samanid slave trade. The thrall system was finally abolished in the mid-14th century...
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    were done between the 10th and 12th centuries into Classical Persian. The Samanid emperor, Mansur I (961–976), ordered a group of scholars from Khorasan...
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    Classical World. 82 (3): 153–163. doi:10.2307/4350348. JSTOR 4350348.; Slater, William J. (2002). "Mime Problems: Cicero Ad fam. 7.1 and Martial 9.38"...
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    raw materials found on-site, such as rhyolitic glass shards, marble, and slate. The residences of the rural population of the city were in enclaves between...
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    Known for Its Blown-Up Buddhas Wants to Be Your Next Holiday Destination". Slate Magazine. "The Historic City of Bamiyan has joined the UNESCO Global Network...
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    1959). James E. Montgomery, 'Ibn Rusta's Lack of "Eloquence", the Rus, and Samanid Cosmography’, Edebiyat, 12 (2001), 73–93. James E. Montgomery, 'Arabic...
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  • com. Lapidos, Juliet (23 April 2008). "How to Spot a Persian Prostitute". Slate. Retrieved 21 November 2011. Larry Getlan (30 August 2014). "Inside modern...
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    the style of stone statues, the paintings on walls of burialchambers, the slate plaques and images of importantdeities reveal a strong analogy with materials...
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    the Alavids; it lasted until the death of its leader at the hand of the Samanids in 928. Roughly forty years later the state was revived in Gilan (north-western...
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    two stages. In the first phase voters chose electors who then selected a slate of senatorial candidates. The emperor would choose a new senator (member...
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    intellectual life in Bukhara and Central Asia during the last days of Samanid rule...blunt questions on Aristotle...defended the Greek thinker's [Aristotle's]...
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  • general and chief of staff (b. 881) 943 – Nasr II, ruler (amir) of the Samanid Empire (b. 906) 1147 – Frederick II, duke of Swabia (b. 1090) 1199 – Richard...
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  • months when set aflame by Muslim invaders in 1193. The Royal Library of the Samanid dynasty was burned at the turn of the 11th century during the Turkic invasion...
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  • Great-Appendage Arthropod with a Radial Mouth from the Lower Devonian Hunsrück Slate, Germany". Science. 323 (5915): 771–773. Bibcode:2009Sci...323..771K. doi:10...
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