Uzbekistan: a land multifarious geniuses. ABU BAKR NARSHAKHI (899-959)
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- 27 July 2018
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Abu Bakr Narshakhi is the author of "Tarikhi Bukhara" (The History of Bukhara) which became known as one of the pearls of the earliest samples of Central Asian historiography. He wrote his book in 943-944 in the Arabic language and devoted it to the ruler of the Samani state Amiri Hamid whose full name sounded as Abu Muhammad Nuh ibn Nasr ibn Ahmad ibn Ismail as-Samani (943-954). Neither "Tarikhi Bukhara" nor other historical sources contain perfect information about the life and activities of the author. The only written source that gives us very short information about him is the book titled as "Kitab al-ansab" written in the 13th century by Samani. As the book informs us, the full name of the author of "Tarikhi Bukhara" was Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Ja’far ibn Zakariyya ibn Hattab ibn Sharik who was from the village Narshah not far from Bukhara and was born in 286/899 and died in 348/959.