Samanid dynasty

The Samani dynasty (Persian: سامانیان Sāmāniyān), also called the Samanid Empire, or simply Samanids (819–999)^[1] was an Iranian state^[2][3][4][5] and empire^[6] in Central Asia and Greater Iran. It is named after its founder Saman Khuda,^[7] who converted to Sunni Islam.^[8] He had been born a member of the Zoroastrian nobility. It was the first Persian empire in Greater Iran and Central Asia after the Sassanid Persian empire collapsed because of the Arab conquest.^[7]

1. ↑ Encyclopedia Britannica, Online Edition, 2007, Samani Dynasty, LINK
2. ↑ Ahmed Rashid, The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or nationalism?, (Oxford University Press, 1994), 166.
3. ↑ Bernard Lewis, Historians of the Middle East, (Oxford University Press, 1962), 372.
4. ↑ Encyclopaedic Historiography of the Muslim World, Ed. NK Singh, (Global Vision Publishing, 2003), 933.
5. ↑ Islam after communism: religion and politics in Central Asia By Adeeb Khalid, pg. 148
6. ↑
   • A historical atlas of Uzbekistan, By Aisha Khan, Published by The Rosen Publishing Group, 2003, ISBN 0823938689, 9780823938681, pg. 23;
   • The Cambridge History of Iran, By Richard Nelson Frye, William Bayne Fisher, John Andrew Boyle, Published by Cambridge University Press, 1975, ISBN 0521200938, 9780521200936, pg. 164;
   • The New Encyclopaedia Britannica, By Encyclopaedia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff, Encyclopaedia Britannica, inc, Published by Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1987, ISBN 0852294433, 9780852294437, pg. 891;
   • The monumental inscriptions from early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana, By Sheila Blair, Published by BRILL, 1992, ISBN 9004093672, 9789004093676, pg. 27.
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Shahmiri, Cyrus (2011). "The Samanid Empire - All Empires". allempires.com. Archived from the original on 10 September 2011. Retrieved 10 October 2011.
8. ↑ The History of Iran By Elton L. Daniel, pg. 74