Narshakhi
Sign in to savethumb|French first edition of Narshakhi's History of Bukhara, 1892 Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Jafar Narshakhi (or Narshaki) (ca. 899–959), a Sogdian scholar from the village of Narshak in the Bukhara oasis is the first known historian in Central Asia. His unique History of Bukhara (Tarikh-i Bukhara) was written in Arabic and presented to the Samanid emperor Nuh I either in 943 or 944. The book provides important information on Bukhara that cannot be found in other contemporary sources. Nothing is known about Narshakhi except his authorship of this one book.
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- Born
- 899
- Died
- 959
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Tārīkh-i Bukhārā
- Târîh-i Buhârâ
- Narshakhi's Tarikh-i-Bukhara
- [Istoriia Bukhary]
- Tārikh-i Narshahkī
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Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 899
- Died
- 1 January 959
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Muhammad
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Samanid Empire
- Occupation
- historian
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Notable work
- The History of Bukhara
- Field of work
- regional history
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5 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Other translations of ''The History of Bukhara''
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thumb|French first edition of Narshakhi's History of Bukhara, 1892 Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Jafar Narshakhi (or Narshaki) (ca. 899–959), a Sogdian scholar from the village of Narshak in the Bukhara oasis is the first known historian in Central Asia. His unique History of Bukhara (Tarikh-i Bukhara) was written in Arabic and presented to the Samanid emperor Nuh I either in 943 or 944. The book provides important information on Bukhara that cannot be found in other contemporary sources. Nothing is known about Narshakhi except his authorship of this one book.
==Biography== Narshakhi was a Sogdian. Even though the Sogdian language had been mostly supplanted by Persian language in densely populated places of Sogdia in his day, it is likely that Narshakhi still spoke Sogdian very well.