Brewer's: Taherites

(3 syl.). A dynasty of five kings who reigned in Khorassan for fifty-two years (820-872). So called from the founder, Taher, general of the Calif's army.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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