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Gorgan

Gorgan (gôrgänˈ) or Jurjan (jo͝orjänˈ), town (1991 pop. 162,468), N Iran, E of the Caspian Sea. The surrounding region yields abundant grain and has extensive forests and marshes. Items of trade include carpets. The surrounding area, the ancient Hyrcania, was captured by the Arabs (716) and conquered by the Mongols (13th cent.). Aga Muhammad Khan, the founder of the Qajar dynasty, was born there, and the town flourished (c.1800) with the rise of the dynasty. It was formerly called Astrabad or Asterabad.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Gorgan

a town in northern Iran, in the region of Mazanderan. Population, 31,200 in 1966.

Gorgan is connected by a railroad line and a highway with the port of Bandar-e Shah and the city of Tehran. The town contains small cotton and rice-refining plants and creameries. Handicraft production is widespread. Gorgan is subject to earthquakes. (The most recent strong earthquake occurred in 1944.)

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(102) Perceiving Qabus's unwillingness to cooperate, Adud al-Dawla wrote to the caliph al-Ta'i' requesting that his brother Mu'ayyid al-Dawla be given the command over the territories of Jurjan and Tabaristan that had been ruled by Qabus.

A Political Biography of al-Sahib Isma'il b. 'Abbad (d. 385/995)

He was born in Bukhara, although some say Jurjan, in the year 338 AH and died in 403.

Being a translation from the introduction to al-Nawawi's al-Majmu

It was presented by Steve Stoffel and Jurjan Wouda Kuipers.

Atlanta Chapter blows the roof off! Holds record-setting CPE event

Ghazali studied fiqh in his home town under a Sufi named Ahmad al-Radhakani; he then traveled to Jurjan and studied under Isma'il b.

Ghazali and his early biographers

Ibn-Sina had to leave Bukhara for political reasons between 1002 and 1005, eventually settling in Jurjan where he stared writing the Kitab-al-Qanun (known as the Canon in the West).

Samarkand and the Timurids

See under risidan-i Hisam al-Dula Abu al-'Abbas Tash bi Jurjan, p.

References to Kurds in medieval Arabic and Persian literature

By the dating of derivative works Brown is able roughly to trace the process of communal ratification, and to show that it was first in Nishapur (for Muslim), then in Jurjan (for al-Bukhari), then, ultimately, in Baghdad where scholars validated and revered these works.

Juynbolliana, gradualism, the Big Bang, and hadith study in the twenty-first century

In medieval times Gurgan (Jurjan in Arabic) was connected to either Tabaristan or Khurasan.

The extinct language of Gurgan: its sources and origins

In some modern Studies Musa's dispatch "to distant Jurjan," where he was based for the campaign, can appear as a minor provincial governorship, or even as evidence of his father's disfavor: Abbott, Two Queens, 69; Kennedy, Early Abbasid Caliphate, 107, but cf.

The succession to the caliph Musa al-Hadi

[191] The sources tell us that the family's roots were Khurasani; that Ibrahim's great-grandfather, Sul (or Sill Tekin [192]), along with his brother, Fayruz, were "Turkish kings of Jurjan, " who had embraced Iranian custom and the Zoroastrian faith; [193] and that Sul was converted to Islam by Yazid b.

THE KHAQANID FAMILIES OF THE EARLY CABBASID PERIOD

Here is Marw, where the situation has deteriorated as much as it did; and [now] the people of Jurjan are flocking to them.

ABU MUSLIM'S CONQUEST OF KHURASAN: PRELIMINARIES AND STRATEGY IN A CONFUSING PASSAGE OF THE AKHBAR AL-DAWLAH AL-[ABBASIYYAH.sup.[subset]]

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