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Samanid Renaissance and Establishment of Tajik Identity - http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/bashiri/Samanid/Samanid.html
A paper by Iraj Bashiri describes the context in which the Samanid culture of Transoxiana and Khurasan flourished, after breaking away from the Abbasid Caliphate; also explains its downfall. |