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Ismail Samani
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Amir of the Samanid Empire from 892 to 907
Key facts
- Reign
- August 892 – 24 November 907
- Predecessor
- Nasr I
- Successor
- Ahmad Samani
- Born
- May 849, Farghana
- Died
- 24 November 907 (907-11-24) (aged 58), Bukhara
- Burial
- Samanid Mausoleum , Bukhara
- Issue
- Ahmad Samani
- Dynasty
- Samanids
- Father
- Ahmad ibn Asad
- Religion
- Sunni Islam ( Hanafi )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Ismail
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Fergana
- Place of death
- Bukhara
- Child
- Ahmad Samani
- Father
- Ahmad ibn Asad
- Sibling
- Nasr I
- Occupation
- military leader
- Languages spoken
- Persian
- Religion
- Islam
- Family
- Samanid dynasty
- Image
- TajikistanP19-100Somoni-1999(2000)-donatedeh f.jpg
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- date of death
- 0907-11-24
- date of birth
- 0849-06-00
- Commons category
- Ismail Samani
- place of burial
- Samanid Mausoleum
- name in native language
- ابو ابراهیم اسماعیل بن احمد
- madhhab
- Hanafism
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Encyclopedic overview
Abū Ibrāhīm Ismā'īl ibn-i Aḥmad-i Sāmāni (Persian: ابو ابراهیم اسماعیل بن احمد سامانی; May 849 – 24 November 907), better known simply as Amir Ismail-i Samani (اسماعیل سامانی), and also known as Isma'il ibn-i Ahmad (اسماعیل بن احمد), was the Samanid amir of Transoxiana (892–907) and Khorasan (900–907). His reign saw the emergence of the Samanids as a powerful force. He was the son of Ahmad ibn-i Asad and a descendant of Saman Khuda, the eponymous ancestor of the Samanid dynasty who renounced Zoroastrianism and embraced Islam.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ismail Samani” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.