Samanid Dynasties and Empires History Islam

Ruled in Transoxiana and Persia from 874 to 999. For a time their capital Bukhara and Samarkand almost eclipsed the Abbasid capital of Baghdad; they professed outward loyalty to the Abbasids, but virtually independent. The southern half of their state was absorbed by the Ghaznavids, while the north fell to the Ilek Khans of Turkestan.

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• Samanid Renaissance and Establishment of Tajik Identity - A paper by Iraj Bashiri describes the context samanid in which dynasties and empires the Samanid culture of Transoxiana and samanid Khurasan flourished, after breaking dynasties and empires away from the Abbasid samanid Caliphate; also explains its downfall.
• The Samanids - Bukhara and Samarkand in Transoxiana became famous Samanid samanid cultural centres. dynasties and empires An illustrated article.
• Samanid - An overview of one of the first purely samanid indigenous dynasties to rule in Persia following the samanid Muslim Arab conquest.

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