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Revision as of 14:19, 11 February 2006 by Tajik (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Template:Iran The Sāmānid dynasty (875-999) was a Persian dynasty in Central Asia, named after its founder Saman Khoda.
They ruled for 102 years and 10 days, and ruled over Khorasan, Ray, Transoxiania, Tabaristan, Kerman, Gorgan, and west until Isfahan Province.
They revived Persian traditions and language after the Islamic conquest of Iran. Their capitals were Bukhara, Samarqand and Herat. In 999 their realm was conquered by the Karakhanids.
The Samanids were the first native rulers of Iran and Central Asia after the Arabic conquest, and they are considered the beginning of the Tajik nation. In commending the Samanids, the epic poet Ferdowsi says of them:
کجا آن بزرگان ساسانیان
زبهرامیان تا بسامانیان
"To where have the great Sassanids all gone?
To the Bahrāmids and Samanids what has come upon?"
Samanid Amirs
- Nasr I (864 - 892) (Effectively independent 875)
- Ismail (892 - 907)
- Ahmad II (907 - 914)
- Nasr II (914 - 943)
- Hamid Nuh I (943 - 954)
- Abdul Malik I (954 - 961)
- Mansur I (961 - 976)
- Nuh II (976 - 997)
- Mansur II (997 - 999)
- 'Abd al-Malik II (999)
See also
External links
- To the Question of the Origin of the Samanids by Shamsiddin S. Kamoliddin, in Transoxiana 10, July 2005.
- M. Ismail Marcinkowski, Persian Historiography and Geography: Bertold Spuler on Major Works Produced in Iran, the Caucasus, Central Asia, India and Early Ottoman Turkey, with a foreword by Professor Clifford Edmund Bosworth, member of the British Academy, Singapore: Pustaka Nasional, 2003, ISBN 9971774887.
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