Between Arab and Turkic rule, a series of Iranian dynasties governed parts of the country: the Tahirids, Saffarids, Samanids, Ziyarids and Buyids. Under them New Persian became a written literary language and Ferdowsi wrote the Shahnameh.
| Period | 821–1055 |
|---|---|
| Covers | Native Iranian dynasties between Arab and Turkic rule |
Pages in this era
- The Tahirids of Khorasan
- The Saffarids and Ya’qub the Coppersmith
- Amr ibn Layth and the Saffarid–Samanid War
- The Zaydi Alavids of Tabaristan
- The Samanid Empire
- Ismail Samani
- The Samanid Persian Renaissance
- Rudaki, Father of Persian Poetry
- Bal’ami and Early Persian Prose
- The End of the Samanids
- The Ziyarids and Qabus ibn Voshmgir
- Gonbad-e Qabus Tower
- The Daylamites: Mountain Warriors of Gilan
- The Buyid Dynasty
- Adud al-Dawla
- Culture under the Buyids
- The Kakuyids of Isfahan
- Al-Khwarizmi and Persian Mathematics
- Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi
- Ferdowsi and the Shahnameh
- Avicenna (Ibn Sina)
- Al-Biruni
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