Bukhara
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Bukhārā · al-Bukhārī · البخاري · بخارا
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Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
A city of the Islamic world whose name furnished the toponymic surname al-Bukhārī, cited as evidence for the last stage in Zaydan's sequence of Arab naming.
And when the solidarity of lineage (*ʻaṣabīyah*) weakened among them they named themselves in relation to the lands, as al-Dimashqī, al-Baghdādī, al-Baṣrī, al-Bukhārī, al-Naysābūrī and others — so that the survival of some twenty-odd of the ancient tribes under the names of animals is nothing strange.
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The Samanid capital, crowded with scholars, to which Ibn Sina's father moved and from which his nisbah derives.
His father moved to Bukhārā, which in those days was thronged with scholars, in the time of Nūḥ ibn Manṣūr of the kings of the Sāmānid state.
[12] (1) Ibn Sīnā, who died in the year 428 A.H. — 980–1036 — whom the Europeans call (Avicenne), is Abū ʻAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʻAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā al-Bukhārī,