Talk:History of Bukhara

Testing
I'm confused by this link... Can someone explain please why this history does not appear here? Victuallers (talk) 14:43, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Inaccuracies in claims
The articles cites the following in the Early Islamic era section:

"   In the reign of Muawiya (661 to 680) Bukhara was conquered by Qutaiba ibn Muslim ...2 In Bukhara there was a bazar called the bazar of Makh.Twice a year for one day there was a fair ...on the day of the fair when people had gathered all went into the fire and temple and worshipped fire . The fire temple existed to the time of Islam when the Muslims seized the power and built a mosque on that place [8]"

I have the book History of Bukhara by Narshakhi at my hand, and the claims made in this article is inaccurate. It doesn't mention anything of fire temple on page 67. It only mentions there was a "temple" before it, where the Mosque was build.

Regarding the Bazar of Makh, it is mentioned on Pg 25 (Chapter: An account of Bazar of Makh). Twice a year a fair was held here, but idols were sold there. People used to buy idols from one another. This practice continued even after the Islamic times.People continued this practice and sold idols i.e. continued this fair. When Muhammad ibn Jafar visited this place, he was astonished to see people selling idols, so he asked religious scholar (Sheikhs) regarding this matter and they said since this is a practice that has been carried on for generations, it was OK for them to carry it.

Abul Hasin Nishapuri in his book "The Treasury of Sciences" suggests a different story regarding the Bazar of Makh. He suggested that the idol worshippers was later replaced with fire-worshippers, and later fire worshipping (probably along with idol-worshiping) continued. On the day of fair, people used to gather together and worshipped fire.

I will be making changes to this article to reflect it accurately, and fix inaccurate claims. --Theotherguy1 (talk) 16:58, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Story of Qutaiba ibn Muslim is questionable
In the history of Bukhara by Narshaki, Richard Nelson Fyre doubts the story of Qutaiba ibn Muslim. In the commentary section of the book, he writes that Qutaiba ibn Muslim didn't live at the time of Ummayyad Caliph Muawiya, but rather much later, so this story is questionable, unless there were two Qutaiba's (two people with same name in different time). This is mentioned on Page 137 of History of Bukhara by Narshaki (Commentary Chapter). --Theotherguy1 (talk) 15:45, 13 June 2010 (UTC)

Buddhist History
In spite of Buddhism playing a very key role in the history of this city, including in giving it the name of Vihara (which later got corrupted to Bukhara), it looks like all previous mentions of Buddhism have been very suspiciously removed from this article. A dangerously ideological re-writing of history taking place here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.10.163 (talk) 05:10, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Travels into Bukhara
http://books.google.com/books?id=3XcOAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=iG8VAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

http://books.google.com/books?id=lqRDAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Rajmaan (talk) 19:32, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

SINO-KHITAN ADMINISTRATION IN MONGOL BUKHARA
The Mongols continued to use Khitan and Han Chinese to rule Bukhara after their conquest of the Kara-Khanid Khanate.

page 124

http://www.jstor.org/stable/41930343?seq=4

Chinese

page 137

http://www.jstor.org/stable/41930343?seq=17

http://books.google.com/books?id=6KVAAQAAIAAJ&pg=PR1&dq=recensio+numorum+muhammedanorum+academiae+petropolitanae&hl=en&sa=X&ei=mT2uU5GzG46uyAT20oJI&ved=0CCEQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=recensio%20numorum%20muhammedanorum%20academiae%20petropolitanae&f=false

http://www.worldcat.org/title/ch-m-fraehnii-recensio-numorum-muhammedanorum-academiae-imp-scient-petropolitanae-inter-prima-academiae-imp-saecularia-edita/oclc/61810864

Rajmaan (talk) 22:01, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

link leading to the wrong place?
I saw a link in the history section that seems like its supposed to go to a page about a Mongol tribe but it goes to the page about the United Arab Republic.

Magoo1011 (talk) 23:51, 22 February 2022 (UTC)

Read with caution
A bit like much of Wikipedia you have got to read with caution. This article is a classic example of poor quality propaganda. 2603:7000:4000:36EA:13:A8C0:CDC6:5037 (talk) 15:23, 3 September 2023 (UTC)