Bukhar Khuda

Bukhar Khuda was the title of the rulers of Bukhara, the lord of Bukhara. The house outlived the Arab conquest. Just after the Abbasid revolution, the Bukhar Khuda and the nobles around him helped Abu Muslim put down a rising of the town in favour of the descendants of Ali.^[1] In 745–746 there was a palace of the Bukhar Khuda at Merv.^[2] In the campaign against Babak in 835–837, the Bukhar Khuda, heir of the rulers of Bukhara, commanded the troops from Transoxiana under Afshin.^[3] The Bukhar Khudas and the nobles of Bukhara lost their power in 874 and their estates a few years later.^[4]

The History of Bukhara names a Bukhar Khuda called Kana. He ruled thirty years and lived in the time of the caliph Abu Bakr, 632 to 634. He was the first to strike silver coins in Bukhara, with his image and a crown.^[5] Some scholars identify Kana with the Göktürk prince Jiana Shad of the Tang histories. Kana would then be a Göktürk lord of the oasis whom the local tradition remembers.^[6] The Tang histories make Jiana Shad a younger brother of Ishbara Tolis in one account and Nishu himself in the other.^[7] They do not place him in Bukhara, and the identification rests on the name alone.

References

^ de la Vaissière 2005a, p. 277
^ de la Vaissière 2005a, p. 282
^ de la Vaissière 2005a, p. 285
^ de la Vaissière 2005a, p. 286
^ Narshakhī, History of Bukhara; Frye 1954, p. 35
^ Markwart 1938, p. 145,151
^ Jiu Tangshu (Old Book of Tang), juan 194; Xin Tangshu (New Book of Tang), juan 215

Sources

Tabari
Narshakhī, History of Bukhara
Jiu Tangshu (Old Book of Tang), juan 194
Xin Tangshu (New Book of Tang), juan 215 (after Jiu Tangshu)

Literature

Étienne de la Vaissière, Sogdian Traders: A History (2005)
Richard N. Frye (trans.), The History of Bukhara. Translated from a Persian Abridgment of the Arabic Original by Narshakhi (1954)
Josef Markwart, Wehrot und Arang. Untersuchungen zur mythischen und geschichtlichen Landeskunde von Ostiran (1938)