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657 CE · 37 AH approximate debated before the Hijra
After Ṣiffīn ʿAli sent Jaʿda ibn Hubayra al-Makhzūmī to Khurāsān; Naysābūr had apostatized and shut its gates, and Jaʿda returned. ʿAli then sent Khulayd ibn Qurra al-Yarbūʿī, who besieged the town until it surrendered on terms — and Merv made peace with him likewise .
Jaʿda ibn Hubayra's Khurāsān mission and Naysābūr's defiance (37 AH) — 657 CE · 37 AH
After Ṣiffīn ʿAli sent Jaʿda ibn Hubayra al-Makhzūmī to Khurāsān; Naysābūr had apostatized and shut its gates, and Jaʿda returned. ʿAli then sent Khulayd ibn Qurra al-Yarbūʿī, who besieged the town until it surrendered on terms — and Merv made peace with him likewise .
The defeat and killing of Rafi' ibn Harthama — c. 896 CE · 283 AH
In 283 Amr ibn al-Layth left Nishapur; Rafi' ibn Harthama entered it behind him and had the khutba said for the Alid Muhammad ibn Zayd, then the two met in battle, Rafi' was routed and killed, and his head was displayed in Baghdad — east side till noon, west side till nightfall .
Battle of Nishapur (1038) — 1038 CE · 429 AH†
Draft card for the Battle of Nishapur in 1038, the Seljuk entry into the city against the Ghaznavids; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
The Nizamiyya of Nishapur — c. 1067 CE · 459 AH
The vizier Nizam al-Mulk founded the Nishapur Nizamiyya about 459/1067 within his network of colleges where the Shafi'i and hadith imams taught .
Khayyam's algebra treatise — c. 1070 CE · c. 462 AH†
About 1070 Umar Khayyam composed his treatise on the demonstration of problems of algebra, solving cubic equations with conic sections .
Siege of Nishapur — November 1220 CE · Ramadan 617 AH†
Draft card for the Siege of Nishapur in 1220–21, the Mongols' reduction of the city after its second fall; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
Siege of Nishapur — 1755 CE · 1168 AH†
Draft card for the Siege of Nishapur in 1755, Ahmad Shah Durrani's siege of the Khorasan city; its sources are not yet checked on the page.
