Aḥmad

Sāmānid governor

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role in Sīmjūrid dynasty

  • In Sīmjūrid Dynasty

    …the family was a certain Aḥmad, originally a slave of the Sāmānid king Esmāʿīl. Aḥmad was appointed governor of Seistan by the Sāmānids in c. 912. His descendant Ebrāhīm Sīmjūrī became governor of Khorāsān during the reign of the Sāmānid Nūḥ I. Ebrāhīm’s son Abū ol-Ḥasan Sīmjūrī created a virtually…

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