Borrowing the merchant's horse, he flees at top speed to Samarra, a distance of about 75 miles (125 km), where he believes Death will not find him.
Following the death of Mutawwakil's heir, al-Muntasir, a few months later, Bugha and the other Turkic commanders of the Abbasid army selected al-Musta'in as his successor (see the "Anarchy at Samarra").
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By the end of 853, he had subdued the country and made many Caucasian magnates and princes (the eristavi and naxarar) captive, sending them to caliphal capital of Samarra.
He was sent from "Samarra" by the Abbasid Caliphate and thus became known as Khafif Soomera in Sindh.
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After the crimes against the places of worship, including the blowing up of the mausoleum in Samarra and the attacks against the tombs of Salman the Persian and Imam Ali bin Mussa al-Rida, the tribes must take a stand and claim a role in the protection of these sites.
In Samarra the stucco and wall paintings are similar to that of the palaces of Panjakent in what is now Tajikistan.
When al-Mu'tamid left Samarra in March 876 to lead the army south to confront the Saffarid army in what would be the Battle of Dayr al-'Aqul, al-Mufawwad was left behind to supervise the capital, with the aid of Muhammad al-Muwallad.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Appointment in Samarra 22nd on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century.
(La Alberca, Abadia, Spanish Bath, Mahgreb.) Later images depicted Tripoli, Lebanon, Nineveh and Samarra in Iraq, and Luxor, Egypt.
During the war in Iraq she covered live the battles for Fallujah, Samarra and Tel Afar and was the only television correspondent embedded with U.S. forces fighting the Mehdi Army in Najaf in 2004.
Samarran material culture was first recognized during excavations by German Archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld at the site of Samarra.
The story is loosely based on Jesus Christ's parable of the prodigal son, from the Biblical New Testament Gospels, although considerable liberties are taken with the source material, chief among them being the addition of a female lead in the form of the priestess of Astarte, Samarra (Turner).
866: Abbasid Civil War: Al-Musta'in flees from Samarra, his deposition and accession of al-Mu'tazz; Muhammad ibn Yusuf Al-Ukhaidhir, a descendent of Ali, establishes an independent kingdom in Yamamah.
On the left bank of the Tigris between Samarra and Baghdad was the city of ‘Ukbarâ (عكبرا, q. v.), located along a river that flows southward out of Asia Minor, and the birthplace of at least two Jewish "heresiarchs", who led the "Okbarite" heretical movement within Karaism, itself a heresy in the eyes of orthodox Judaism.