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ABBASID DECENTRALIZATION AND MEDIEVAL PERSIAN CULTURE I. 3 BUYID (Buwayhid) brothers from Daylam in N. Iran expand into Iraq, take Baghdad 945 C.E. A. Shi c ite (Zaydi/Twelver) B. Recognize Abbasid caliph, take title shahanshah (“king
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ABBASID DECENTRALIZATION AND MEDIEVAL PERSIAN CULTURE I. 3 BUYID (Buwayhid) brothers from Daylam in N. Iran expand into Iraq, take Baghdad 945 C.E. A. Shicite (Zaydi/Twelver) B. Recognize Abbasid caliph, take title shahanshah (“king of kings” DAYLAM
Buyid dinars: Rukn al-Dawla Abu Ali, vassal of brother Imad al-Dawla Abu’l-Hasan (946-50)
II. SAMANIDs, autonomous govs. of Transoxiana, c. 850 A. Defeat rebellious SAFFARIDs in Khurasan and take over, c. 873 B. Samanid court in BUKHARA – Persian in Arabic script Jaxartes Bukhara Oxus R.
tomb of Ismail the Samanid in Bukhara as national symbol of Tajikistan (even though Bukhara is in Uzbekistan)
C. SAMANIDs commission poet Ferdowsi to compile Shahname, stories of pre-Islamic Iranian kings. D. SAMANIDs employ Turkic slave-soldiers to govern Khurasan E. GHAZNAVIDs, Turkic slave-soldier dynasty, overthrow SAMANIDs in Khurasan, c. 1030. Ghazni
minaret of Sultan Masud, Ghazni, Afghanistan
Houghton Shahname (Safavid,16th c.): Ferdowsi confronts poets at Mahmud of Ghazna’s court
Caravan sights Zal in the simurgh’s nest.
Rustam shooting double-pointed arrow into Isfendiyar’s eyes 14th c. Mongol Shahname 16th c. Safavid Shahname
Sasanian shah Khusrau I Anushirvan (r. 531-79) receives ambassador from India
III. Oghuz Turks migrate west of Oxus River, 11th c. • SELJUKs defeat GHAZNAVIDs in Khurasan, take Baghdad • 1055. • Recognize Abbasid caliph, take title sultan
Tughril Beg, Seljuk conqueror Seljuk bowl from 12th-century Iran of Baghdad, 1055
Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), mathematician, astronomer, minor poet at Seljuk court in Isfahan, Iran Nishapur Isfahan Cornell Wilde as Omar Khayyam