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	History of Islam
		Death of the Samanid ruler Abdul Malik, accession of Manauf.
		Death of the Qarmatian ruler Abu Mansur; accession of Hasan Azam.
		Death of the Zirid ruler Mansur, accession of Nasir ud Daula Badis.
	www.muslimaccess.com /sunnah/historyofislam/centuries/century10.html (592 words)

	Samanid Dynasty
		Samanid Dynasty was the first native dynasty to arise in Iran after the Muslim Arab conquest.
		But from the mid-10th century, Samanid power was gradually undermined, economically by the interruption of the northern trade and politically by a struggle with a confederation of nobles.
		Under the loosely centralized feudal government of the Samanids, Transoxonia and Khorasan prospered, with a notable expansion of industry and commerce, attested by the use of Samanid silver coins as currency throughout southern Asia.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/5246/Saman.html (433 words)

	Samanid Renaissance & Establishment of Tajik Identity - (The Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies - CAIS)©
		Samanid rulers not only respected scholars and poets, but invited them to their court, held group discussions, and participated in the sessions as major contributors.
		Bukhara was, under the Samanid rule, the Focus of Splendour, the Shrine of Empire, the Meetingplace of the most unique intellects of the Age, the Horizon of the literary stars of the world, and the Fair of the greatest scholars of the Period.
		In fact, many of the Samanid physicians and researchers were descendants of those who had recognized the merit of Greek medicine, especially the necessity of maintaining a balance among the four elements--earth, air, water, and fire--and who had ascribed fundamental value to them as criteria for preservation of, and restoration to, health.
	www.cais-soas.com /CAIS/Geography/samanid.htm (11133 words)

	Mansur biography
		It is not clear what happened to Abu Nasr Mansur at this stage but certainly his pupil al-Biruni fled at the outbreak of the civil war.
		Certainly Abu Nasr Mansur worked on many topics as a result of requests from al-Biruni and a total of twenty-five works are known to have been written by him.
		Abu Nasr Mansur's main achievements are his commentry on the Spherics of Menelaus, his role in the development of trigonometry from Ptolemy's calculation with chords towards the trigonometric functions used today, and his development of a set of tables which give easy numerical solutions to typical problems of spherical astronomy.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Mansur.html (1220 words)

	Iranica.com - MANS®UR B. NUH®
		Abu Mansáur then rebelled against Samanid authority, mulcted the towns of Khorasan in an effort to seize as much money as possible while he could, and entered into negotiations with the Samanids' western rival, the Buyid Rokn-al-Dawla, before he was killed in 351/962 by Abu'l-H®asan Simjuri's General Ahámad b.
		Mansáur's two-year reign was entirely taken up with the struggles of the competing military leaders, with Fa@÷eq endeavoring to prevail in the capital Bukhara and Begtuzun to establish his position in Khorasan against Mahámud b.
		Mansáur came with Fa@÷eq and an army to Khorasan, but his indecisiveness and the suspicions of his ally that he was going to intrigue with Mahámud prompted Fa@÷eq and Begtuzun to depose Mansáur on 12 Safar 389/1 February 999 and to blind him (Gardizi, ed.
	www.iranica.com /articles/sup/Mansur_b_Nuh.html (1198 words)

	10 Century (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		961:Death of the Samanid ruler Abdul Malik, accession of Manauf.
		965:Death of the Qarmatian ruler Abu Mansur; accession of Hasan Azam.
		996:Death of the Zirid ruler Mansur, accession of Nasir ud Daula Badis.
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	The Samanid Empire - All Empires
		Samanid loyalty towards the Abbsaid Sunni caliphs might be explained from the religious point of view as an understandable recognition because of their belonging to the same branch of Islam.
		Moreover the Samanids were far from feeling IThe Samanids had good relations with the Abbasid caliphs, and even they always formally sought the sanction of the caliphate to govern their territories.
		From the mid-10th century, Samanid power was gradually undermined, economically by the interruption of the northern trade and politically by a struggle with a confederation of disaffected nobles.
	www.allempires.com /article/index.php?q=samaniad_empire (2856 words)

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		Abu Mansur SebÃ¼k Tigin () (ca 942 - August 997) is generally regarded by historians as the founder of the Ghaznavid Empire and dynasty in what is today Afghanistan and Pakistan, even though the Amir Sabuktigin was the son-in-law of Alptigin who actually seized Ghazni in a political fallout for the throne of the Samanids.
		Mansur I of Samanid then officially conferred upon Abu-Ishaq the governorship of Ghazni and acknowledged Sabuktigin as the heir.
		In 994 he was involved in aiding Nuh II of the Samanids against internal uprisings and defeated the rebels at Balkh and then to Nishapur thereby earned himself the title of NÄsir ud-DÄ«n ("Hero of the Faith") his son Mahmud the title of Governor of Khorasan and Saif ud-Dawlah ("Sword of the State").
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	10th Century (900-999) C.E.
		961: Death of the Samanid ruler Abdul Malik, accession of Manauf.
		965: Death of the Qarmatian ruler Abu Mansur; accession of Hasan Azam.
		996: Death of the Zirid ruler Mansur, accession of Nasir ud Daula Badis.
	ourislamonline.tripod.com /crono_10th.htm (628 words)

	Avicenna Spine and Joint Care
		It was his skill in medicine that was to prove of great value to ibn Sina for it was through his reputation in that area that the Samanid ruler Nuh ibn Mansur came to hear of him.
		After ibn Sina had cured the Samanid ruler of an illness, as a reward, he was allowed to use the Royal Library of the Samanids which proved important for ibn Sina's development in the whole range of scholarship.
		Nuh ibn Mansur, in an attempt to keep in power, had put Sebüktigin, a former Turkish slave, as the ruler of Ghazna and appointed his son Mahmud as governor of Khorasan.
	www.painmed.com /Avicenna.htm (1945 words)

	Science and Culture in the Samanid period - Bukhara History
		Bukhara of the Samanid period was rightly considered to be an "abode of glory, a meeting place for eminent people of the epoch".
		Under the Samanids, Bukhara appeared to be the center of religious sciences and a glorious pillar of Islam.
		The Samanid emirs esteemed religious authorities so highly that they were the only subjects granted the right not to kiss the ground in the face of a king.
	www.advantour.com /uzbekistan/bukhara/history/008.htm (766 words)

	Avicenna
		His first appointment was that of physician to the amir, who owed him his recovery from a dangerous illness (997).
		Avicenna’s chief reward for this service was access to the royal library of the Samanids[?], well-known patrons of scholarship and scholars.
		When the library was destroyed by fire not long after, the enemies of Avicenna accused him of burning it, in order for ever to conceal the sources of his knowledge.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/av/Avicenna.html (2557 words)

	Iransaga - Persian Art, The Samanids
		The Samanid rulers were great art patrons and they turned Bukhara and Samarkand in Transoxiana into famous cultural centres.
		On the other hand, Khorasan pottery of the Samanid period, known primarily from material excavated at Nishapur, did not eliminate the human form, and there are examples of human figures against backgrounds abounding in animals, flowers and inscriptions.
		It is inscribed to Abu Mansur Bukhtegin, a high official of the Samanid court who was put to death by Abd-al-Malik ibn-Nuh in 960.
	www.art-arena.com /samanid.htm (473 words)

	THE IRANIAN: Abu Ali Sina, Avicenna, Farid Parsa
		At the cultured Samanid's castle, Avicenna was stunned by their royal library and its rich collection of books.
		The Samanids who had given some limited power to the leaders of their Turkish populated provinces in the past, now fear the most, and are not sure whether they could withstand their ravenous appetite for more land and power.
		They accepted the Samanid's solicitous advice and fled to Gorganj, in Karazm where they were received cordially and await the fate of their Samanid rulers from a safe distance The Samanids capital, Bukhara meanwhile, is captured and the Samanids flee.
	www.iranian.com /History/2002/November/Avicenna (2904 words)

	Bukhara after the Arabian conquest - Bukhara History
		This famous emir of the Samanid House embodied the beginning of a new age in the history of both Bukhara and the whole of Central Asia.
		In 961 after the sudden death of Mansur, Bukhara was submerged in riots, during which insurgents plundered and burnt down the palace.
		By the end of the century the Samanid state had completed its decline, and the mutinous military commanders did not obey the king.
	www.advantour.com /uzbekistan/bukhara/history/006.htm (2303 words)

	On the Religion of the Samanid Ancestors - Transoxiana 11 - Julio 2006
		Another monument showing connection of the Samanids with the Buddhism, is a symbol represented on the walls of the Sāmānids mausoleum in Buxara..
		Occurrence of these Buddhist symbols on the Samanids coins could be connected with opposition and response of the Samanids to actions of the Buids, which, having captured in 334/945 actual authority in Bagdad, have declared themselves successors of the Sasanid kings and began to esteem and revive some pre-Islamic and Zoroastrian cultural values.
		The iconography of the portrait in this medallion is similar with the portraits in the medallion of Tun Yabgu kagan and the medallion of Mansur ibn Nuh.
	www.transoxiana.org /11/kamoliddin-samanids.html (4545 words)

	islamichistory
		775: Death or the Abbasid Caliph Mansur, Accession of Mahdi.
		Death of the Samanid ruler Ahmad, accession of Nasr.
		892: Death of the Samanid ruler Nasr, accession of Ismail.
	www.angelfire.com /az/Omid/islamhistory.html (8934 words)

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		He and Abu al-Hasan Simjuri, as Samanid generals, competed with each other for the governorship of Khorasan and control of the Samanid empire by placing on the throne emirs they could dominate when Abdul Malik I of Samanid died in 961.
		Mansur I was installed, and Alp Tigin prudently retired to his fief of Ghazna.
		Samanid weakness attracted into Transoxania the Qarluq Turks, who had recently converted to Islam.
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	Mansur
		The end of the 10th century and beginning of the 11th century was a period of great unrest in the Islamic world and there were civil wars in the region in which Abu Nasr Mansur was living.
		The wars in the region, however, were to disrupt the scientific work of Abu Nasr Mansur and eventually he and
		Ptolemy's calculation with chords towards the trigonometric functions used today, and his development of a set of tables which give easy numerical solutions to typical problems of spherical astronomy.
	www.educ.fc.ul.pt /icm/icm2003/icm14/Mansur.htm (1147 words)

	Chronology of Islamic History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		: Death of the Samanid ruler Nasr, accession of Ismail.
		: Death of the Samanid ruler Abdul Malik, accession of Manauf.
		: Death of the Zirid ruler Mansur, accession of Nasir ud Daula Badis.
	islamic-world.net /islamic-state/chronology.htm (8830 words)

	the biography of Hakim Abu al-Qasim Mansur Firdowsi - life story
		Moreover, some other sources mentions his name to be Abul Qasem Mansur.
		It is assumed that he had a considerable degree of financial independence from the inheriting land and its incoming revenue.
		Whether he was settled in a city or was in travel he would research and imbibe the pre- Arab values of Khorasanians particularly from the ordinary dihqan class and Samanid rulers who had great attachment to their own pre-Arab glories, greatness and independence.
	www.poemhunter.com /hakim-abu-al-qasim-mansur-firdowsi/biography (614 words)

	Avicenna Arabic Ibn Sina
		At 16 he turned to the study of medicine, which he said he found “not difficult.” By 18, his fame as a physician was so great that he was summoned to treat the Samanid prince Nuh ibn Mansur.
		His success with that patient won him access to the Samanid royal library, one of the greatest of Bukhara’s many storehouses of learning.
		At 20, Ibn Sina was appointed court physician, and twice served as vizier, to Shams al-Dawlah, the Buyid prince of Hamadan, in western Persia.
	www.geocities.com /megahit2/sina.htm (738 words)

	Dari - Persian Dari - (CAIS)
		However with the rise of Samanids and political revival of Khorasan, Dari emerged as a literary medium and became the established literary form of Dari language.
		During the period of Samanids a new era of literary began.
		Mansur I Samanid also commissioned the pharmacopeia of Abu Mansur Muvaffaq of Herat, the first Dari book on medicine.
	www.cais-soas.com /cais/Languages/dari.htm (1223 words)

	"Avicenna"
		By the time Avicenna was born, Nuh ibn Mansur, the Sultan in Bukhara, was struggling to retain control of his empire.
		Avicenna's father was the governor of a village in one of Nuh ibn Mansur's estates and was a respected and learned man, whose home was a meeting place for other men of learning in the area.
		Avicenna's skill in medicine proved to be of great value to him; his reputation caused the Samanid ruler Nuh ibn Mansur to seek him out to treat an illness that the court physicians had been unable to deal with.
	www.traditionalmedicine.net.au /avicenna.htm (1023 words)

	History of the Persian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However with the rise of Samanids and the political revival of Khorasan, Persian reemerged as a literary medium and developed into the established literary form of Persian language.
		Al-Bal'ami, a vizier in the court of Mansur I of Samanid, in 963 published a translation of the Annals of Tabari.
		Mansur I also commissioned the pharmacopoeia of Abu Mansur Muwaffak of Herat, the first Persian book on medicine.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Persian_language (1098 words)

	Avicenna Biography \| World of Health
		He was born near Bukhara, then the capital of the Persian Samanid dynasty and the intellectual center of Islam.
		When the Samanid ruler Nuh ibn Mansur fell ill, Avicenna was asked to consult with the court doctors.
		The ruler recovered, and Avicenna was offered a position at court as a physician, which gave him access to the royal library.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/avicenna-woh (726 words)

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