Yaʿqūb ibn Layth al-Ṣaffār
- Yaʿqūb ibn Layth al-Ṣaffār
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▪ Ṣaffārid ruler
born 840
died 879
founder of the Ṣaffarid (
Ṣaffārid Dynasty) Empire, who rose from obscurity to rule much of present Iran as well as portions of Afghanistan and Pakistan; at one point he came close to capturing
Baghdad, the seat of the caliph (the religious leader of all Islam).
After an apprenticeship as a coppersmith (
ṣaffār, whence the name of the dynasty),
Yaʿqūb became a bandit and assembled an independent army. He won a measure of respect from the caliph by conquering non-Muslim areas in what is now Afghanistan. He then began to act as an independent ruler, minting his own coinage and driving out the
Ṭāhirid Dynasty from control of
Khorāsān, in eastern Iran. Yaʿqūb next seized control of the Iranian food-producing provinces of Fars and Ahwaz. Finally in 878 he marched on Baghdad itself but was stopped when its defenders cut irrigation dikes.
Yaʿqūb is a popular folk hero in Iranian history, and it was at his court that the revitalization of the Persian language began after two centuries of eclipse by Arabic.
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