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
Samanid Empire
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The Samanid Empire was a Persianate Sunni Muslim empire, ruled by a dynasty of Iranian dehqan origin, from 819 to 999. The empire was centred in Khorasan and Transoxiana, and at its greatest extent in
Iranian Intermezzo
…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 Kakuyids, the Annazids, and the Hasanwayhids. According to…
Silver medallion of the Samanid ruler Mansur I, dated AH 358 (968/9), with bilingual Middle Persian and Arabic minted in Bukhara. The obverse is extremely similar to that of the Western Turk Kaghan Zik (r. 610–618). Obverse in Middle Persian: "the King of Kings has increased the royal splendor" Reverse in Arabic: "There is no god but Allah, the One, there is no partner to Him, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, al-Muti' lillah, the victorious king, Mansur son of
Picture of the Samanid Mausoleum, the burial site of Ismail Samani.
Nuh II suppressing a rebel. Majma' al-tawarikh, dated c. 1425.