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Abu'l-Harith Muhammad

10th century · 10th century

Abu'l-Harith Muhammad was the Farighunid amir of Guzgan, in present-day northern Afghanistan, in the late 10th century. A patron of learning, he was the dedicatee of the Hudud al-Alam, an anonymous Persian geography of the known world completed in 982. His family married into the house of the Ghaznavid ruler Sabuktigin.

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