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c. 233–c. 295/c. 848–c. 908
Balkh and Ṭukhāristān
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Hāshim b. Bānljūr, in Khuttal, d. 243/857 |
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⊘ 233/848 |
Dāwūd b. al-‘Abbās b. Hāshim, in Balkh, d. 259/873 |
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⊘ 260/874 |
Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Bāníjūr, Abū Dāwūd, previously governor of Andarāba and Panjhīr, still ruling in 285/898 or 286/899 |
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Aḥmad b. Muḥammad, in Balkh and Andarāba until c. 295/c. 908 |
The Bānījūrids were a line of local rulers, vassals of the Sāmānids (see above, no. 83), who ruled at Balkh and Andarāba in the region of Ṭukhāristān to the south of the middle Oxus, and generally also at Panjhlr in the Hindu Kush, famed for its silver mines. They were most probably of Iranian origin. Their ancestor Bānljūr, a contemporary of the first ‘Abbāsid caliphs, had connections with Farghāna, but both the affiliations and the chronology of his line are extremely obscure. From the early tenth century, other local chiefs seem to have controlled Ṭukhāristān, but it is possible that a line of local princes to the north of the Middle Oxus, in Khuttal, were kinsmen of the Bānījūrids.
Zambaur, 202, 204; Album, 33.
EI2 Suppl. ‘Bānidjūrids’ (C. E. Bosworth).
R. Vasmer, ‘Beitrage zur muhammedanischen Münzkunde. I. Die Münzen der Abū Dā’udiden’, NZ, N.F. 18 (1925), 49–62.
Muḥammad Abū-l-Faraj ‘Ush, ‘Dirhams Abu Dāwūdides (Banū Bānījūrī)’, Revue Numismatique, 6th series, 15 (1973), 169–76.