Farghana

Farghana (the Ferghana Valley), in eastern Uzbekistan and neighbouring Central Asia in the historic region of Transoxiana, was a fertile and populous region of the medieval Islamic east. The Hanafi jurist al-Marghinani (d. 1197), author of the influential legal manual al-Hidaya, came from Marghinan in the valley; the astronomer al-Farghani (9th c.) took his nisba from the region.