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Please bring mainstream English sources for his background. If he was from Samarqand during Samanid times, it is most likely he was Soghdian/Persian. Also "Turkic" would be correct and neither an Anatolian Turkish language nor its alphabet existed 1000 years ago or was ever used in Samarkand.--] (]) 21:14, 22 December 2008 (UTC) Please bring mainstream English sources for his background. If he was from Samarqand during Samanid times, it is most likely he was Soghdian/Persian. Also "Turkic" would be correct and neither an Anatolian Turkish language nor its alphabet existed 1000 years ago or was ever used in Samarkand.--] (]) 21:14, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
::I did find one of your sources:, but the authors are fromt the "faculty of medicine" in a Turkish university. My source is ] who is from George Washington University and very well known in such topics as history and Islamic scholarship. Actually, without any bias, the top scholar. I think a compromise solution is simply list him as a Muslim scholar.--] (]) 21:32, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

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Please bring mainstream English sources for his background. If he was from Samarqand during Samanid times, it is most likely he was Soghdian/Persian. Also "Turkic" would be correct and neither an Anatolian Turkish language nor its alphabet existed 1000 years ago or was ever used in Samarkand.--Nepaheshgar (talk) 21:14, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

I did find one of your sources:, but the authors are fromt the "faculty of medicine" in a Turkish university. My source is Seyyed Hossein Nasr who is from George Washington University and very well known in such topics as history and Islamic scholarship. Actually, without any bias, the top scholar. I think a compromise solution is simply list him as a Muslim scholar.--Nepaheshgar (talk) 21:32, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
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