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Samma dynasty
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The Samma dynasty (Persian: جامیان, lit. 'Dynasty of the Jams') was a medieval Sindhi[1][2][3] dynasty which ruled the Sindh Sultanate from 1351 before being replaced by the Arghun dynasty in 1524.
Samma dynasty (Sindh Sultanate) جامیان | |||||||||
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| 1351–1524 | |||||||||
 .png){kind=small} Location of the Sammas, and main South Asian polities in 1400 CE[4] | |||||||||
| Status | Tributary to the Delhi Sultanate[5][6] | ||||||||
| Capital | Thatta | ||||||||
| Official languages | Persian[7] | ||||||||
| Common languages | Sindhi • Kutchi • Gujarati in Halar • Arabic (liturgical language) | ||||||||
| Religion | Islam: Sunni-Hanafi (official)[8]
Hinduism[9][1] | ||||||||
| Government | Monarchy | ||||||||
| Jam | |||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Samma dynasty begins | 1351 | ||||||||
• Samma dynasty ends | 1524 | ||||||||
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| Today part of | Pakistan India[2] | ||||||||
The Samma dynasty has left its mark in Sindh with structures including the necropolis of and royalties in Thatta.[1][10]
- ^ a b c Census Organization (Pakistan); Abdul Latif (1976). Population Census of Pakistan, 1972: Larkana. Manager of Publications.
- ^ a b U. M. Chokshi; M. R. Trivedi (1989). Gujarat State Gazetteer. Director, Government Print., Stationery and Publications, Gujarat State. p. 274.
It was the conquest of Kutch by the Sindhi tribe of Sama Rajputs that marked the emergence of Kutch as a separate kingdom in the 14th century.
- ^ Rapson, Edward James; Haig, Sir Wolseley; Burn, Sir Richard; Dodwell, Henry (1965). The Cambridge History of India: Turks and Afghans, edited by W. Haig. Chand. p. 518.
- ^ Schwartzberg, Joseph E. (1978). A Historical atlas of South Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp. 39, 147. ISBN 0226742210.
- ^ Naz, Humera (2019). "Sindh under the Mughals: Some Glimpses from Tarikh-i-Masumi and Mazhar-i- ShahjahaniI". Pakistan Perspectives. 24 (2). SSRN 3652107.
- ^ Sheikh, Samira (2010). Forging a Region Sultans, Traders, and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200–1500. Oxford University Press. p. 42. ISBN 9780199088799.
- ^ M. H. Panhwar, Languages of Sindh, p 7.
- ^ Ghulam Muhammad Lakho (2006), The Samma Kingdom of Sindh, Jamshoro: Institute of Sindhology, p. 173.
- ^ P. M. Holt; Ann K. S. Lambton; Bernard Lewis (21 April 1977). The Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 2A, The Indian Sub-Continent, South-East Asia, Africa and the Muslim West. Cambridge University Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-521-29137-8.
- ^ Population Census of Pakistan, 1972: Jacobabad
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