An overview of one of the first purely indigenous dynasties to rule in Persia following the Muslim Arab conquest.

A paper by Iraj Bashiri describes the context in which the Samanid culture of Transoxiana and Khurasan flourished, after breaking away from the Abbasid Caliphate; also explains its downfall.

Brief profiles of Samanid rulers, from the Islamic Dictionary. [English and Arabic]

Bukhara and Samarkand in Transoxiana became famous Samanid cultural centres. An illustrated article.