Question

After the conversion of many Middle Eastern merchants to Islam under the Abbasids, the religion spread through their caravans. For 10 points each:
[10e] Islam was spread throughout the steppes largely by followers of this mystical tradition who often accompanied those merchant caravans.
ANSWER: Sufism [or Sufis]
[10h] Islam and Persian culture spread into central Asia under this dynasty of the 9th and 10th centuries. This dynasty sponsored Ferdowsi, whose Shanameh was finished after this dynasty was conquered by the Ghaznavids.
ANSWER: Samanid Empire [or Samanian Empire; or Samanids]
[10m] Baha’ al-Din Naqshband, the namesake of Naqshbandi Sufism, was from this city where the Samanids had been based. A much later emirate named for this city was conquered by the Russians in the 1860s and controlled most of modern Uzbekistan.
ANSWER: Bukhara [accept Emirate of Bukhara]
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2023 BHSU @ Berkeley03/18/2023Y130.00100%100%100%
2023 BHSU @ Maryland03/11/2023Y215.00100%50%0%
2023 BHSU @ Northwestern02/25/2023Y430.00100%100%100%
2023 BHSU Online04/15/2023Y210.00100%0%0%
2023 BHSU @ Sheffield04/15/2023Y225.00100%100%50%
2023 BHSU @ Waterloo04/15/2023Y215.00100%50%0%

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Stanford ABerkeley A10101030
Maryland AGlass Onyen: A Knives Out Mystery100010
The Perfection of Wisdom in 8,000 NegsRutgers Diaspora1001020
Amartya Senpai Notice MeWUSTL10101030
NorthwesternChicago B10101030
Chicago APurdue10101030
Maryland B-Michigan10101030
Cornell B-Hutto Hippos100010
The Enrique Trastamara Military Academy BWhat is BH! And you are asking me? BHSU100010
Broken Imperial NomadsBuzzers Karamazov1001020
Oxford HornetsMagisters Ludi10101030
Parth et al.Neg 5! Playing Quizbowl, Liddy Style100010
The Passion According to C.H.Milan et al.1001020