Samanid dynasty, 9th-10th centuries

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Name (Latin)
Samanid dynasty, 9th-10th centuries
Other forms of name
Samanids
Somonië dynasty, 9th-10th centuries
See Also From tracing place name
Iran
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q486181
Library of congress: sh2001004133
Sources of Information
  • Work cat.: Somoniën vaėḣëitamadduni forsii tojikī, 1998.
  • Encyc. of Islam, 1995(Sāmānids, 204-395/819-1005; Persian dynasty which ruled in Transoxania and then in Khurs̄ān also, at first as subordinate governors of the Tāhirids and then later autonomous, virtually independent rulers; Abūlbrāhīm Ismāʻil I (279-295/892-907) may be regarded as the real founder of the Sāmānid amirate; dynasty's rule ended 398/999; Nūḥ-al-Muntaṣir, last hope of the Sāmānids, was killed in 395-1005)
  • Encyc. Amer., 1997(Samanids, native Persian dynasty that ruled in eastern Persia and Transoxiana in the 9th-10th cents.; dynasty named for Saman, a Persian noble whose great-grandson became governor of Transoxiana in 875; last ruler overthrown in 999; Samanid rulers)
  • Britannica Micro., 1998(Sāmānid Dynasty, 819-999; first native dynasty to arise in Iran after the Muslim Arab conquest)
  • Columbia encyc., 1993(Samanid, Muslim Persian dynasty that ruled (819-1005) in Khorasan and Transoxiana)
  • LC database, 18 Oct. 2000(hdg.: Samanids)