Ibrahim ibn Simjur (died 948) was a
Samanid
The Samanid Empire ( fa, سامانیان, Sāmāniyān) also known as the Samanian Empire, Samanid dynasty, Samanid amirate, or simply as the Samanids) was a Persianate Sunni Muslim empire, of Iranian dehqan origin. The empire was centred in Kh ...
military officer from the
Simjurid family.
Biography
Ibrahim was the son of
Simjur al-Dawati, the founder of the Simjurid family. Ibrahim is first mentioned as a deputy of the
Muhtajid The Al-i Muhtaj () or Muhtajids (also known as the Chaghanids) was an Iranian or Iranicized Arab ruling family of the small principality of Chaghaniyan. They ruled during the 10th and early 11th centuries.
Early history
The origin of the Muhtajids ...
ruler
Abu 'Ali Chaghani. In 945, the Samanid ruler
Nuh I
Nuh ibn Nasr, or Nuh I (died 954), was the Amir of the Samanids in 943–954. He was the son of Nasr II. It is rumoured that he married a Chinese princess.Richard N. Frye, ''Bukhara, the Medieval Achievement'', (University of Oklahoma Press, 1965) ...
removed the governorship of
Khorasan from Abu 'Ali, and instead gave it to Ibrahim. However, Abu 'Ali responded by rebelling; he managed to capture the Samanid capital of
Bukhara
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People have inhabited the region around Bukhara ...
and place Nuh's uncle
Ibrahim ibn Ahmad Ibrahim ibn Ahmad (died 10th-century), was the amir of the Samanids briefly in 947. He was the son of Ahmad Samani.
Ibrahim had a brother named Nasr II, who succeeded Ahmad as the ruler of the Samanids in 914. In 943, Nasr's son Nuh I succeeded hi ...
on the throne.
Abu 'Ali also forced Ibrahim and another Turkic military officer
Mansur ibn Qara-Tegin to leave
Nishapur
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. The two then went to
Merv
Merv ( tk, Merw, ', مرو; fa, مرو, ''Marv''), also known as the Merve Oasis, formerly known as Alexandria ( grc-gre, Ἀλεξάνδρεια), Antiochia in Margiana ( grc-gre, Ἀντιόχεια ἡ ἐν τῇ Μαργιανῇ) and ...
, where Nuh was preparing a counter-attack against Abu 'Ali. Nuh eventually managed to quell the rebellion and Ibrahim shortly died himself in 948 and was succeeded by Mansur ibn Qara-Tegin as the governor of Khorasan. Ibrahim had a son named
Abu'l-Hasan Simjuri, who became even more prominent than his father.
Sources
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*Treadwell, Luke.
Simjurids" ''Encyclopaedia Iranica.'' Ed. Ehsan Yarshater. Columbia University. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
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948 deaths
Year of birth unknown
10th-century Turkic people
Samanid generals
Samanid governors of Khorasan
Simjurids