What is Bukhara?

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Bukhara was the capital of learning beyond the Oxus: the homeland of al-Bukhari and the birthplace of Ibn Sina. It holds the Ark of the Samanids, the Kalyan Minaret and madrasas from five centuries. ¹

Disputing the count of raids and sariyas

The maghazi arithmetic disputes: Ibn Ishaq's twenty-six raids versus the twenty-seven that split Wadi'l-Qura from Khaybar; nine pitched battles common to both lists with al-Waqidi adding Wadi'l-Qura and al-Ghaba for eleven; and the sariya counts ranging from thirty-five to al-Waqidi's forty-eight (in al-Tabari's chain) to sixty-six.

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Disputing the count of raids and sariyas