Samanid Empire

The Samani dynasty (Persie: سامانیان‎, Tajik: Сомониён - Sāmāniyān), forby kent as the Samanid Empire, or simply Samanids (819–999),^[4] was a Sunni^[5] Persian Empire^[6][7] in Central Asia, named efter its founder Saman Khuda, wha convert tae Islam^[8] despite bein frae Zoroastrian theocratic nobility. It wis a native Persie dynasty in Greater Iran an Central Asie efter the foonderin o the Sassanid Persie empire caused bi the Arab conquest.

Samani سامانیان
819–999
The Samanid Empire at its greatest extent under Isma'il ibn Ahmad
Caipital	Balkh, Bukhara
Common leids	Persian (releegious decree/mither tongue),[1][2] Arabic (art/science)[3]
Releegion	Sunni Islam
Govrenment	Emirate
Emir
• 819–855	Yahya ibn Asad
• 999	'Abd al-Malik II
Historical era	Medieval
• Established	819
• Disestablished	999
Aurie
928 est.	2,850,000 km2 (1,100,000 sq mi)
Precedit bi Succeedit bi Saffarid dynasty Abbasid Caliphate Alids of Tabaristan, Daylam and Gilan Ghaznavid dynasty Karakhanids Banu Ilyas
The day pairt o	Afghanistan  Iran  Kazakhstan  Kyrgyzstan  Pakistan  Tajikistan  Turkmenistan  Uzbekistan

References

1. "Persian Prose Literature." World Eras. 2002. HighBeam Research. (September 3, 2012);"Princes, although they were often tutored in Arabic and religious subjects, frequently did not feel as comfortable with the Arabic language and preferred literature in Persian, which was either their mother tongue—as in the case of dynasties such as the Saffarids (861–1003), Samanids (873–1005), and Buyids (945–1055)...".
2. Elton L. Daniel, History of Iran, (Greenwood Press, 2001), 74.
3. The Samanids, The David Collection. Islamic dynasties
4. Encyclopædia Britannica, Online Edition, 2007, Samani Dynasty, LINK
5. Rene Grousset, The Empire of the Steppes:A History of Central Asia, transl. Naomi Walford, (Rutgers University Press, 2002), 143.
6. The Encyclopaedia of Islam (article by Clifford Edmund Bosworth) writes: SAMANIDS, a Persian dynasty which ruled in Transoxania and then in Khurasan also, at first as subordinate governors of the Tahirids [q. v. ] and then later autonomous, virtually independent rulers (204-395/819-1005)
7. • A historical atlas of Uzbekistan, By Aisha Khan, Published by The Rosen Publishing Group, 2003, ISBN 0-8239-3868-9, ISBN 978-0-8239-3868-1, pg. 23;
   • The Cambridge History of Iran, By Richard Nelson Frye, William Bayne Fisher, John Andrew Boyle, Published by Cambridge University Press, 1975, ISBN 0-521-20093-8, ISBN 978-0-521-20093-6, pg. 164;
   • The New Encyclopædia Britannica, By Encyclopædia Britannica Publishers, Inc. Staff, Encyclopædia Britannica, inc, Published by Encyclopædia Britannica, 1987, ISBN 0-85229-443-3, ISBN 978-0-85229-443-7, pg. 891;
   • The monumental inscriptions from early Islamic Iran and Transoxiana, By Sheila Blair, Published by BRILL, 1992, ISBN 90-04-09367-2, ISBN 978-90-04-09367-6, pg. 27.
8. The History of Iran By Elton L. Daniel, pg. 74