Iranian Intermezzo
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The Iranian Intermezzo, also called the Persian Renaissance, was a period in Iranian history marked by the rise to power of the first Iranian Muslim dynasties. Beginning 170 years after the Arab conqu
Wall painting of a mounted falconer in decorated caftan from Nīshāpūr area, Sāmānid, 10th-century (Museum of Islamic Archaeology, Tehran, Iran)
Gold ewer of the Buyid Period, mentioning Buyid ruler Izz al-Dawla Bakhtiyar ibn Mu'izz al-Dawla, 966-977 CE, Iran
Coinage of Sallarid ruler Wahsudan ibn Muhammad, dated 954-5 CE
Coins issued by the Hasanwayhid dynasty
Saffarid dynasty
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The Saffarid dynasty was a culturally Persianate dynasty of eastern Iranian origin that ruled over parts of Persia, Khorasan, and eastern Makran from 861 to 1002. One of the first indigenous Persian d
Iranian Intermezzo
…significant Persian literature from this period being the Shahnameh by Ferdowsi. The Iranian dynasties that took part in this effort were the Tahirids, the Saffarids, the Ilyasids, the Ghaznavids, the Sajids, the Samanids, the Ziyarids, the Buyids, the Sallarids, the Rawadids, the Marwanids, the Shaddadids, the…
Atigh Jameh Mosque of Shiraz, established in 894.
Coinage of Abu Ja'far Ahmad ibn Muhammad.
Coinage of the Saffarid Governor of Kabul, issued circa 870 CE on the Hindu Shahi model. Abassid dirhman weight standard, and Arabic mention adl on the obverse. Nagari "Sri Kudarayaka" on the reverse Circa 895 921 CE
Persia with part of the Ottoman Empire, 1872