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The Samanid Empire (Persian: سامانیان, romanized: Sāmāniyān) [a] was a Persianate Sunni Muslim empire, ruled by a dynasty of Iranian dehqan origin. The empire was centred in Khorasan and Transoxiana , at its greatest extent encompassing northeastern Iran and Central Asia , from 819 to 999.
The Iranian Intermezzo, [2] also called the Persian Renaissance, [3] was a period in Iranian history marked by the rise to power of the first Iranian Muslim dynasties. . Beginning nearly 200 years after the Arab conquest of Iran and lasting until the 11th century, it is noteworthy since it was an interlude between the decay of Arab power under the Abbasid Caliphate and the proliferation of ...
Ismail was born in Farghana in 849—he was the son of Ahmad ibn Asad, and had a brother named Nasr I, who ascended the Samanid throne in 864/5.During Nasr's reign, Ismail was sent to take control of Bukhara, which had been devastated by looting on the part of forces from Khwarezm.
The Dish with epigraphic decoration , Iran. A dish with epigraphic decoration is an Islamic ceramic characteristic of the art developed in eastern Iran and Transoxiana around the 10th century, mainly during the Samanid dynasty (819-1005). The dish was presented to the Louvre Museum, by Alphonse Kann in 1935. [1]
• Iran • Afghanistan • Azerbaijan • Pakistan • Tajikistan • Iraq • Syria: 1501–1736 16 Samanid Dynasty: 2.85m² Km • Afghanistan • Iran • Kazakhstan • Kyrgyzstan • Pakistan • Tajikistan • Turkmenistan • Uzbekistan. 819–999 17 Saffarid Dynasty: 2.85m² Km • Afghanistan • Pakistan • Iran • Tajikistan
Alid dynasties of northern Iran or Alavids (Persian: علویان طبرستان). In the 9th–10th centuries, the northern Iranian regions of Tabaristan , Daylam and Gilan , sandwiched between the Caspian Sea and the Alborz range, came under the rule of a number of Arab Alid dynasties, espousing the Zaydi branch of Shia Islam .
The Samanid Civil War of 888 was a conflict between the Samanid brothers, Nasr I, ruler of Samarkand and amir of all of the Samanid territories, and Ismail I, who was ruler of Bukhara and Khwarazm. The war took place three years after the Samanid Civil War of 885, which ended with a status quo ante bellum .
Mansur was notably the first Samanid ruler to the use title of King of Kings , most likely as a response to his rival, the Buyid ruler Adud al-Dawla, who likewise used the title. [1] He is also known by the sobriquet Amīr-i Sadid ('The Righteous/Just Emir').