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The Samanid Dynasty: Iran's Rebirth in Bukhara
When the Arab conquest of Persia seemed to have erased Zoroastrian culture forever, a dynasty of Persian nobles in Bukhara quietly rebuilt it — not through war, but through poetry, scholarship, and a single-minded devotion to Persian identity. The Samanids, who ruled from 819 to 999, revived the Persian language using Arabic script, patronized Ferdowsi before his Shahnameh, and turned Bukhara into a rival of Baghdad. This episode explores how Ismail Samani, a Tajik ruler, outmaneuvered the Caliphate and local warlords to create a golden age. We look at the mausoleum that still stands in…
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