Abū Ṭāhir Samarqandī, was the author of the work entitled Samariyya, and lived in the 13th/19th century. He called himself Abū Ṭāhir Kh^wājah Samarqandī b. Aqḍā al-Quḍāt Mullā Mīr Abū Saʿīd Kh^wājah, chief judge (qāḍī-yi kalān) of Samarqand (Samarqandī, Abū Ṭāhir, 14). Qāḍī-yi kalān was the Tajik equivalent of Aqḍā al-Quḍāt (Samarqandī, Abū Ṭāhir, vii). Abū Ṭāhir had inherited the position of chief judge from his father and grand-father. His grandfather Mawlānā Mīr ʿAbd al-Ḥayy Kh^wājah (1169–1243/1756–1827) was chief judge and Shaykh al-Islām, and ran the courts of justi…