Khurasan
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Khurāsān · خراسان
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The eastern Iranian region to which the author journeyed in order to study rational theology under Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī.
Then a company urged me to travel to Khurāsān, to learn the principles and to speak upon the intelligibles;
Adab al-wazīr
The eastern Iranian province of Khurāsān, setting of the anecdote of military riot and caliphal rebuke.
Word reached al-Maʼmūn that the troops in Khurāsān had rioted and plundered, and he wrote to his governor there:
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
Eastern province named as the reach of al-Farazdaq's praise.
Our praise of Abū al-Ashbāl shall surely reach — whoever is in the lowland or upon the two peaks of Khurāsān as though it were pure native gold, embellished by — the tongue of the most poetical satan God created
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
The eastern Islamic province in whose districts the footnotes place both al-Farabi's Farab and al-Ghazali's Tus.
He was born at Fārāb in the districts of Khurāsān in the year 260, and died at Dimashq of Shām in the year 339 A.
He was born at Ṭūs in the districts of Khurāsān in the year 450 and died there in the year 505, after playing an important part in the religious and philosophical movement of his age.