Tash Farrash was a Turkic military officer of the

Ghaznavid Empire The Ghaznavid dynasty ( fa, غزنویان ''Ġaznaviyān'') was a culturally Persianate society, Persianate, Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslim dynasty of Turkic peoples, Turkic ''mamluk'' origin, ruling, at its greatest extent, large parts of Persia, ...

in the mid-11th century. He is described as the chamberlain (''

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'') of the Ghaznavid

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Mas'ud I. In 1031, he was appointed as the governor of

Jibal Jibāl ( ar, جبال), also al-Jabal ( ar, الجبل), was the name given by the Arabs to a region and province located in western Iran, under the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates. Its name means "the Mountains", being the plural of ''jabal'' (" ...

by Mas'ud I. In 1033, Tash Farrash was sent on an expedition to Ray against the

Turkmens Turkmens ( tk, , , , ; historically "the Turkmen"), sometimes referred to as Turkmen Turks ( tk, , ), are a Turkic ethnic group native to Central Asia, living mainly in Turkmenistan, northern and northeastern regions of Iran and north-weste ...

, who had been causing disruption in the area; Tash Farrash managed to defeat the Turkmens and execute 50 of their chiefs, which included a prominent one named Yaghmur. However, Tash Farrash's tyranny towards the inhabitants of Jibal made Mas'ud I replace him with

Abu Sahl Hamduwi Abu Sahl Hamdawi (also spelled Hamduni, Hamdavi and Hamdu'i), was a Persian statesman and military officer of the Ghaznavids, and served briefly as the ''vizier'' of Sultan Muhammad in 1030. Family Hamdawi belonged to a distinguished and rich fam ...

as the governor of the region. Tash Farrash was later sent on another expedition against the Turkmens, but was defeated and killed by them sometime in the mid-1030s.

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