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Tahir ibn Husayn

775–822 · 9th century

Tahir ibn Husayn (775–822) was a Persian general who won the civil war for the Abbasid caliph al-Ma'mun, defeating the armies of al-Amin and taking Baghdad in 813. Made governor of Khurasan in 821, he omitted the caliph's name from the Friday prayer shortly before his death. His descendants governed Khurasan as the Tahirid dynasty until 873.

Tahir ibn Husayn
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Tahirid dynasty

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