Note 211 — Chapter XIII · Decline of the Caliphs’ Authority in Khorāsān. The Tāhirides
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His full title was Sāmān-Khudāt, being lord of a village which he himself had built and given the name of Sāmān. He claimed descent from the Sāsānide Bahrām Chūbīn. Cf. Narshakhi, ed. Schefer, pp. 57, 58.