Farighunid
Sign in to saveThe Farighunids were an Iranian dynasty that ruled Guzgan (modern-day northern Afghanistan) in the late 9th, 10th and early 11th centuries. They were ultimately deposed by the ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire, Sultan Mahmud ().
Key facts
- Country.conventional_long_name
- Farighunids
- Country.common_name
- Farighunids
- Country.era
- Middle Ages
- Country.status
- Client of the Saffarids, Samanids and the Ghaznavids
- Country.government_type
- Monarchy
- Country.year_start
- 9th-century
- Country.year_end
- 1010
- Country.event_end
- Ghaznavid conquest
- Country.s1
- Ghaznavids
- Country.capital
- Yahudiyya
- Country.common_languages
- Persian
- Country.religion
- Sunni Islam
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- Background
- History
- Cultural significance
- Geography
- List of Farighunid amirs
- See also
- References
- Sources
The Farighunids were an Iranian dynasty that ruled Guzgan (modern-day northern Afghanistan) in the late 9th, 10th and early 11th centuries. They were ultimately deposed by the ruler of the Ghaznavid Empire, Sultan Mahmud ().
== Background == According to the unknown author of the ''Hudud al-'Alam'', the Farighunid family descended from the legendary Iranian king Afridun/Faridun. The English historian Clifford Edmund Bosworth suggests that the Farighunids had ancestral ties with the Afrighids, the ruling dynasty of Khwarazm. This is possibly supported by the fact that some chronicles refer to the Afrighids as the "Al Farighun of Kath".