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"The Sajid family came from Ushrusana in Central Asia and was probably of Soghdian origin." --"The Minor Dynasties of Northern Iran", W. Madelung, The Cambridge History of Iran, vol. 4, page 228.
"The Sajids were a line of caliphal governors in north-western Persia, the family of a commander in the 'Abbasid service of Soghdian descent..." --The New Islamic Dynasties, C.E. Bosworth, page 147.
"Sadjids, a line of military commanders who governed the northwestern provinces of the caliphate (Adharbaydjan, Arran and Armenia) in the later 3rd/9th and early 4th/10th centuries on behalf of the 'Abbasids..[..]..The family seems to have originated in Ushrusana [q.v.] on the middle Syr Darya in Transoxania, the region where the Afshins [q.v.] were hereditary princes until at least the end of the 3rd/9th century, and was probably of Soghdian stock; by the time the family came to prominence in Islamic history, however, it had become culturally Arabicised to a considerable extent." -- "Sadjids", C.E. Bosworth, Encyclopaedia of Islam, volume , page 745. --Kansas Bear (talk) 00:01, 16 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]
