Samanid dynasty
Iranian dynasty ruling Khorasan and Transoxiana (819-999) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Samani dynasty (Persian: سامانیان Sāmāniyān), also called the Samanid Empire, or simply Samanids (819–999)[1] was a Tajik 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]