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The Army and Militarism in the Samanid Era

2023
Abstract Following Arab invasions into Iran and their territorial expansion within the Sasanian realm, Iranian discontent with Arab rulers grew, particularly during the Umayyad and Abbasid periods. These grievances sparked uprisings and revolts, eroding Arab control over the eastern reaches of the Islamic Empire and gradually enabling local governments
Shahrian, Gholamreza, Seyyed, Mahmood
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[320s/930s], Tomb of the Samanids at Bukhara

1991
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TheShahnama: Between the Samanids and the Ghaznavids

Iranian Studies, 2010
The paper reconsiders the apocryphal stories regarding theShahnama's initial reception to propose that it was only after long narrative poems gained currency that theShahnamawas recognized as a masterpiece. The paper analyzes the structure and themes of several histories written before and during the Samanid period and compares them with theShahnamaand
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Religion and the Samanid Amirs

2016
To situate Naṣīḥat al-mulūk in the religious culture of the tenth-century Samanid domains, this chapters explores the orientations and practices of the Samanid amirs from the later ninth century onwards. It portrays the proclivities towards austerity (zuhd) and religious devotion (ʿibāda) of the earlier amirs, especially the generation of Naṣr I and ...
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Samanids and Oghuz Turks

Selçuk Üniversitesi Selçuklu Araştırmaları Dergisi
This paper discusses Oghuz origin of the Samanids dynasty. The ancestor of the Samanids was originated from the Oghuz tribes of Khurasan, which were in military service of the Sasanids. Another ancestor of the Samanids Saman Khudat is mentioned in “Oghuz-Nama” as Saman Yabghu among ancestors of the Oghuz tribes.
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Samanid Stucco Decoration from Nishapur

Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1938
OUR KNOWLEDGE of early Islamic art in Iran has been greatly increased through the excavations of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, conducted since 1935 at Nishapur, in the province of Khurasan.1 The importance of Nishapur for the Islamic culture is well known to every historian.
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ADMINISTRATIVE COURTS IN THE SAMANIDS STATE

2023
Sâmânoğulları, bir asrı geçen bir zaman diliminde Maveraünnehir’i ve Horasan’ı içine alan geniş bir coğrafyada hüküm sürmüşlerdi. Bu devletin dış saldırılardan ve hücumlardan sağlam bir şekilde çıkabilmesinin altında yatan en önemli sebep, muntazam ve etkileyici bir devlet teşkilatına sahip olmasıydı.
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Planning the Persian Language in the Samanid Period

Iran and the Caucasus, 2003
AbstractIt is well known by every student of Iranian, that the Samanid dynasty (10th-11th centuries) contributed greatly to the development and empowerment of the Persian language. Despite a considerable amount of publications on this subject, however, to the best of my knowledge, none of them has enjoyed a linguistic basis.1 When we talk about the ...
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Samanid Silver and Trade along the Fur Route

Medieval Encounters, 2012
Abstract While much scholarly attention has been devoted to cultural exchange in recent years, most of the focus has been on the Mediterranean Sea and the land and sea routes connecting China to the Islamic world and beyond to Europe. In the tenth century, another major trading route also flourished between Central Asia and northeastern Europe.
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Turks in the Samanid system of government

Uzbekistan: language and culture
During the Samanid rule (9th-10th centuries), the Turks, as in the Abbasid palace in Baghdad, played an important role in the administration of this dynasty from the beginning to the end. During the Samanid period, Turks occupied almost all the main positions in their palace, as well as in other cities and provinces of Khorasan and Transoxiana that ...
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