Zahir ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi

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At a glance

Roles: Scholar · muqri
Era: Abbasid Fragmentation
Region: Persia & Central Asia
Identifiers: Wikidata

Life in time

Abbasid Fragmentation · The Buyid, Fatimid and Seljuk Era Contemporaries: Abd al-Mun'im ibn Ghulbun · Ibn Hasnun · Ali Ibn Isa Al Rummani · Abu Ahmad al-Askari · Abu Hafs Ibn Shahin

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Lived in: Sarakhs

People and things also explored

Battle of Sarakhs (1038)· The Sarakhs Treaty· Abd al-Rahman ibn Muhammad al-Dawudi al-Busanji· Ahmad ibn al-Tayyib al-Sarakhsi· Ahmad ibn Sa'id al-Darimi· al-Fadl ibn Sahl· Abu al-Faraj al-Zaz al-Sarkhasi, jurist of Marw· جغري بك بن سلجوق

Sources

al-Alam — al-Zirikli

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islam.museum contributors. “Zahir ibn Ahmad al-Sarakhsi”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/zahir-ibn-ahmad-al-sarakhsi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Battle of Sarakhs (1038)

Draft card for the Battle of Sarakhs in 1038, of the Ghaznavid–Seljuk struggle; its sources are not yet checked on the page.