The Saffarid dynasty was a Persian Muslim dynasty founded in Sistan in eastern Iran by Ya'qub ibn al-Layth al-Saffar, a coppersmith who rose through the ranks of a local militia. He conquered large areas of eastern Iran, Afghanistan and Fars, and threatened the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad, though he was beaten near the capital. His brother Amr ibn al-Layth later lost a major battle to the Samanids and was captured. The Saffarids are remembered as among the first rulers to revive Persian as a language of court and poetry after the Arab conquest. The dynasty survived as local rulers of Sistan under Samanid and then Ghaznavid overlordship, until the Ghaznavids ended it.
Before and after
- from c. 850s to 950sThe Classic Maya collapse
- c. 850sGunpowder is invented in China
- 859 CEFounding of University of al-Qarawiyyin
- 860 CEConstruction of Alamut Castle
- from 861 CE to 1003Saffarid dynasty
- from 862 CE to 1598Rurikids
- from 865 CE to 866 CECaliphal Civil War
- 866 CEBirth of Abu Bakr al-Razi
- from 868 CE to 905 CETulunids
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