soffarian

Updated: July 9, 2026

The Abbassides were too feeble to contend, too proud to forgive: they invited the powerful dynasty of the Samanides, who passed the Oxus with ten thousand horse so poor, that their stirrups were of wood: so brave, that they vanquished the Soffarian army, eight times more numerous than their own.

Edward Gibbon - History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5