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Herat is a city of Khurasan. Al-Baladhuri reports that Firuz exiled to it a group of people from Fars who practised sodomy, and they became helpers to the people of Quhistan alongside the Hephthalite Turks. 1
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خوارزم شاه علاء الدين محمد· Abd Allah ibn Amir· Aws ibn Tha'laba· Rabi' ibn Nahshal· Ibn Khurmail killed; Herat besieged again· Khwarazmshah's siege of Herat· The Herat, Badghis and Bushanj Sulh
Sources
- Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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islam.museum contributors. “Herat”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/harat/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-21.