Bukhara, Also Bukhara-yi Sharif, Numijkat

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CityAlso Bukhara-yi Sharif, Numijkat

Bukharaبخارى

Silk Road city of the Samanids, which gave the world Imam al-Bukhari and Ibn Sina.

Qutayba ibn Muslim took Bukhara around 709. Under the Samanids it was a capital of Persian and Islamic learning, birthplace of Imam al-Bukhari, and Ibn Sina studied in its royal library. Genghis Khan burned it in 1220.

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