Samanid dynasty, 9th-10th centuries (Personal Name)

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)