Khurasan

Military intelligence officials say that the units essentially act as death squads and that one of them, a large group known as the Khurasan that operates primarily in Pakistan's tribal areas, has been responsible for at least 250 assassinations and public executions.

NYT > Home Page By RAY RIVERA 2011

Military intelligence officials say that the units essentially act as death squads and that one of them, a large group known as the Khurasan that operates primarily in Pakistan's tribal areas, has been responsible for at least 250 assassinations and public executions.

NYT > Home Page By RAY RIVERA 2011

Background: Eastern Turkmenistan for centuries formed part of the Persian province of Khurasan; in medieval times Merv (today known as Mary) was one of the great cities of the Islamic world and an important stop on the Silk Road.

Turkmenistan 2008

Avicenna (d. 1037) was beginning his career far away in the east, in Khurasan.

Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Language and Logic Street, Tony 2008

TurkmenistanEastern Turkmenistan for centuries formed part of the Persian province of Khurasan; in medieval times Merv (today known as Mary) was one of the great cities of the Islamic world and an important stop on the Silk Road.

Background 2008

Khurasan, while the second, Toghril (r. 1038-63) moved west, eventually capturing Baghdad in 1055, to become the supreme political authority within Iran and Iraq.

Introduction - Critical Apparatus 2005

˜Eastern™ (not ˜illuminative™) philosophy of Khurasan (mashriqiyya), in spite of the fact that Avicenna's ˜Eastern™ philosophy was not a mystical enterprise, but merely a philosophical tradition distinct from the one of the school of Baghdad (Gutas 2000).

Suhrawardi Marcotte, Roxanne 2007

Ismaili Shia was already present in Sijistan (present-day southwestern Iran and southern Afghanistan) and Khurasan (present-day northwestern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, and northern Afghanistan) by the beginning of the tenth century CE.

The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis) 2006

Ismaili Shia was already present in Sijistan (present-day southwestern Iran and southern Afghanistan) and Khurasan (present-day northwestern Iran, southern Turkmenistan, and northern Afghanistan) by the beginning of the tenth century CE.

The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis) 2006

They had begun subversive activities against the Umayyads some 30 years before the open revolt, building an organized underground network of agents and propagandists who cultivated disaffected people, especially in the area of Khurasan.

c. 730 2001