Battle of Nishapur (1038)

معركة نيسابور (١٠٣٨)

1038 CE · 429 AH† – 1038 CE · 429 AH† †

† Hijri date derived by computation from the Gregorian/Julian date; it may differ from the transmitted date by a day or two.

Nishapur

Draft card for the Battle of Nishapur in 1038, the Seljuk entry into the city against the Ghaznavids; its sources are not yet checked on the page.

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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era
Region
Persia & Central Asia
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The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era

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Nishapur

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The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur· The Sa'diyya Madrasa of Nishapur· Qasr al-Shadiyakh· The Conquest of Naysabur· Jaʿda ibn Hubayra's Khurāsān mission and Naysābūr's defiance (37 AH)· Khayyam's algebra treatise· The Nizamiyya of Nishapur· The defeat and killing of Rafi' ibn Harthama

Sources

  • Tarikh al-Islam — Hasan Ibrahim Hasan
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The Bayhaqiyya Madrasa of Nishapur

The Bayhaqiyya of Nishapur, the earliest madrasa whose report is preserved in Islam: al-Maqrizi holds that the people of Nishapur were the first recorded as building a madrasa; al-Subki and al-Suyuti cited it to rebut al-Dhahabi's claim that Nizam al-Mulk founded the first madrasas, for it stood before Nizam al-Mulk was born.