1285 AH
Russian armies take Samarkand, and the emir of Bukhara becomes the tsar's vassal. The old cities of Central Asia's scholars come under Russian rule.
How it touches Islam The homeland of al-Bukhari and al-Tirmidhi stayed under Russian and then Soviet rule until 1991.
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