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Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar

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The fighting raged on for most of the day. The Saffarid army was somewhat reluctant to directly fight the caliph and his army. Despite this, there were heavy losses on both sides, and several Abbasid and Saffarid commanders were killed. Ya'qub himself was wounded, but he did not leave the field. As
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took place on 8 April. Before the battle, Ya'qub reviewed his troops, who apparently numbered about ten thousand. The Abbasids, however, had a numerical superiority and the additional advantage of fighting on familiar territory. The center of the Abbasid army was commanded by al-Muwaffaq. Musa bin
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The motivation behind the Saffarids' initial campaigns remains unknown and highly debated in secondary scholarship. Some scholars believe that Ya'qub fought as a ghazi warrior for the purpose of spreading proto-Sunni Islam, others support the notion that he was motivated by his Persian identity,
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in the East. After having defeated the Ammar, Ya'qub held a celebration. During the celebration, one of the members of the court made a speech in Arabic. Ya'qub asked the latter why he made a speech in a language which he could not understand. One of Ya'qub's secretaries, Muhammad ibn Vasif, then
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was introduced as an official language, and Ya'qub reportedly did not know Arabic. Ya'qub has been accorded the historical status of a popular folk hero since his court began the revitalization of the Persian language after two centuries in which the Arabic language flourished in Persian lands.
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The religion of the Saffarid's founder, Ya'qub, has been a topic of debate. Most of the primary sources were written during or after the fall of the Samanid dynasty and view the Saffarids through Samanid eyes. These primary sources depict Ya'qub either as a religious rascal or a volunteer Sunni
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Eventually the Saffarid army began to flee from the battle. Ya'qub and his bodyguards continued to fight, but were forced to leave the field as the army retreated, leaving them behind. The caliph had apparently flooded the lands behind the Saffarids before the battle, and this made a retreat
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with the intention of subjugating the province. Sources disagree on what happened next, but Ya'qub was eventually dissuaded from continuing his expedition, and he turned back toward Sistan. His withdrawal is described as having been caused either by the governor
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difficult; many men drowned attempting to escape the Abbasid army. With the Saffarids making their hasty exit, al-Muwaffaq was able to capture Ya'qub's baggage. Several political prisoners that Ya'qub had brought with him, such as the Tahirid
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The provincial Persian Ya'kub, on the other hand, rejoiced in his plebeian origins, denounced the Abbasids as usurpers, and regarded both the caliphs and such governors from aristocratic Arab families as the Tahirids with
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in August 875, and in the resulting battle, Muhammad, despite having a numerically superior army, was defeated. Muhammad was forced to flee; Ya'qub looted Muhammad's stronghold at Sa'idabad and took control of Fars.
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governor of Sistan. Another ayyar leader, Dirham ibn Nasr, succeeded in unseating Salih as the king of Sistan in 858. However, in 861, Ya'qub overthrew Dirham, and gave himself the title of
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According to numerous sources, he was extremely poor, and because of this, he occasionally consumed bread and onions. His family moved to the city of Zaranj due to the occasional
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Bugha had command of the right wing, and Masrur al-Balkhi the left. A final appeal was made to the Saffarids to restore their loyalty to the caliph, and the battle began.
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According to D.G. Tor, the Samanids vilified the Saffarids in order to increase their own legitimacy since they were competing against them for territory.
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under Salih ibn al-Nadr, who had opposed the Abbasids and began ruling in Bost. By 854, the ayyars managed to expel Ibrahim ibn al-Hudain, who was the
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Ya'qub claimed the inheritance of the kings of Persia and sought "to revive their glory," and thus in 867 he sent a poem written by himself to the
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Several poets, like Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Mamshadh, fabricated Ya'qub's genealogy, tracing it back to the legendary Iranian king
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while others believed he had a love for military conquest. Ya'qub's hostility towards the Abbasid caliphs was easily seen.
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Map showing the location of the battle, as well as the routes taken by the Saffarid (red) and main 'Abbasid (blue) armies
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decided upon war and pronounced a formal curse upon Ya'qub. On 7 March 876, al-Mu'tamid left Samarra, leaving his son
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Coinage of the Saffarid Governor of Kabul after the capture of the city, issued around 870 CE in Kabul on the
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D.G. Tor states S.M Stern's thesis work, which concerned Ya'qub's Persian nationalism, was based on one poem.
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Ya'qub traveled through Khuzistan, during which he gained the defection of a former general of the caliph's,
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Ya'qub, along with his brothers Amr ibn al-Layth, Tahir ibn al-Layth and Ali ibn al-Layth, later joined the
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was now under Ya'qub's control, which made him able to mint silver coins. In 873, Ya'qub ousted the
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states the early Saffarid emirs did not appear to have significant religious beliefs. The vizier
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and refused treatments when advised to do so. As a result, he died on Wednesday, 5 June 879, in
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by first battling Kharijites in his homeland of Sistan. In 864, "Yaʿqub led an expedition to
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Ya'qub ibn al-Layth once again set out for Fars, this time, invading it and advancing to
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sources were invariably hostile to Ya'qub because of the disrespect he showed toward the
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The actual date is given variously in the Arabic sources, such as 1 April and 10 April
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in charge of the capital. On 15 March he arrived at Baghdad, before arriving near
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Ya'qub ibn Layth standing on the roof in full armour, folio from a manuscript of
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Nusayr created a diversion by attacking the Saffarid rear from boats on the
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Ya'qub was born in 840, of eastern Iranian origin, in a small town called
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and by 870 AD the whole of Khorasan was brought under their control. The
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Ibn Khallikān adds Kirman, Adharbayjan, Qazwin and al-Sind to this list.
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evening approached, reinforcements arrived to support al-Muwaffaq. The
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managed to slow down his progress by flooding the land outside
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Ya'qub then withdrew from Iraq and died three years later.
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offered Ya'qub governorship of Khurasan, Tabaristan, Fars,
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from their own capital of Nishapur, and captured its ruler
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against his former master Salih, and then into Rukkaj and
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In 870/871, Ya'qub marched against the Kharijites of
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Index

Ya'qub bin Laith as-Saffar
Amir
Saffarid dynasty

Husayn Kashifi
Shiraz
Safavid Iran
Amr ibn al-Layth
Zaranj
Tahirid Khorasan
Gundeshapur
Tomb of Yaghub Leys Safari
House
Saffarid
Persian
Saffarid dynasty
Sistan
Zaranj
Afghanistan
Greater Iran
Iran
Turkmenistan
Uzbekistan
Tajikistan
Pakistan
Iraq
Amr ibn al-Layth
Zaranj
Bost
Afghanistan

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