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Jabal al-Zur

جبل الزور

Jabal al-Zur in the Dawar country toward Kabul; Ibn Samura bottled its folk there, truced, and entered on the gold ruby-eyed Zur idol — cutting its hand and taking the rubies to show it 'neither harms nor benefits'.

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Ibn Samura's Campaign and the Zur Idol

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Abd al-Rahman ibn Samura· Ibn Samura's Campaign and the Zur Idol

Sources

  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Abd al-Rahman ibn Samura

Abd al-Rahman ibn Samura ibn Habib ibn Abd Shams; Ibn Amir's governor of Sijistan — Zaranj's marzban truced under feast-day siege for two million and two thousand wadif; he conquered to Kish and the Dawar country, trapped them in Jabal al-Zur, cut the hand off the gold ruby-eyed Zur idol and took its eyes: 'yours — I meant to show you it neither harms nor benefits'; Bust and Zabil by compact.