Tahir II of Khorasan

Tahir II of Khorasan

Tahir bin 'Abd-Allah (d. 862) was the Tahirid governor of Khurasan from 845 until 862.

During his father 'Abd-Allah's lifetime, Tahir was sent into the steppes to the north in order to keep the Oghuz Turks in line; he probably received Samanid assistance in this venture. When 'Abd-Allah died in 844, the Caliph al-Wathiq originally appointed another Tahirid, Ishaq b. Ibrahim b. Mus'ab, as his successor in Khurasan, but then reversed this decision and confirmed Tahir as governor.

Little is known about Tahir's reign, although there was unrest in some of the outlying provinces. Sistan, for example, was lost to the Tahirids when the 'ayyar leader Salih b. al-Nadr drove out Tahir's governor and took power there himself. Tahir died in 862; his will stated that his young son Muhammad should succeed him as governor, and this was honored by the caliph.

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*Bosworth, C. E. "The Tahirids and Saffarids." "The Cambridge History of Iran Volume 4: From the Arab Invasion to the Saljuqs." R. N. Frye. London, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1975. ISBN 0-521-20093-8


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