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The Samanid Dynasty: Persian Renaissance in Central Asia
In this episode of The Story of Uzbekistan, Lucas and Luna explore the Samanid dynasty, the first native Persian-ruled state after the Arab conquest. Based in Bukhara and Samarkand, the Samanids sparked a Persian cultural revival in the 9th and 10th centuries. Lucas explains how the Samanids, claiming descent from the Sasanian general Bahram Chobin, promoted Persian literature, science, and statecraft. He details the rise of the dynasty under Ahmad ibn Asad and its peak under Ismail Samani, who unified Transoxiana and Khorasan. The episode covers the flourishing of Persian poetry with Rudaki…
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