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