Akhsīkath - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE - مرکز و کتابخانه مطالعات اسلامی به زبان های اروپایی

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" Akhsīkath - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Golden, Peter B.

Document Type	:	AL
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	1059931
Doc. NO	:	ALei328
Main Entry	:	Golden, Peter B.
Title & Author	:	Akhsīkath - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Golden, Peter B.
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
Note	:	(782 words)
Abstract	:	Akhsīkath was the pre-Islamic capital city of Farghāna (Fergana, in present-day Uzbekistan). It was called in Soghdian 'γsyknδh or γsyknδh (Freyman and Livshits, 2:144, 193), which was shortened in the tenth/sixteenth century to Akhsī. The Arabs captured the city in 86/705 (Ibn al-Athīr, 4:524; al-Balādhurī, 409: Kh-sh-k-t = Akhsīkath). The principal city of Farghāna into the fourth/tenth century, it was “the residence of the amīr and [his] lieutenants” ( Ḥudūd , trans. Minorsky, 116). Kāsān (al-Yaʿqūbī, 394: the city “in
Subject	:	Islam.
electronic file name	:	ALei328.pdf