Ahmad Samani from the genealogical tree of the Zübdet-üt Tevarih ("Cream of Histories"), dated 1598
Amir of the Samanids
Reign
907–914
Predecessor
Ismail Samani
Successor
Nasr II
Died
24 January 914
Issue
Nasr II Ibrahim ibn Ahmad
Dynasty
Samanid
Father
Ismail Samani
Religion
Sunni Islam
Coin of Ahmad Samani
Ahmad ibn Ismail (Persian: احمد سامانی; died 24 January 914)[1] was amir of the Samanids (907–914). He was the son of Ismail Samani. He was known as the "Martyred Amir".[2]
^Tabaqat-i Nasiri by Minhaj-i-Siraj, pg. 104, Lahore Sangmil Publications 2004
^Abu Sa'id 'Abd al-Hayy Gardizi, The Ornament of Histories: A History of the Eastern Islamic Lands AD 650–1041, edited and transl. C.E.Bosworth, (I.B. Tauris, 2011), 56.
Ahmad ibn Ismail (Persian: احمد سامانی; died 24 January 914) was amir of the Samanids (907–914). He was the son of Ismail Samani. He was known as the "Martyred...
Ismā'īl ibn-i Aḥmad-i Sāmāni (Persian: ابو ابراهیم اسماعیل بن احمد سامانی; May 849 – 24 November 907), better known simply as Ismail-i Samani (اسماعیل سامانی)...
he may have already joined the court under the latter's predecessor, AhmadSamani (r. 907–914). Rudaki's success was largely due to the support of his...
Isma'il ibn Ahmad, his cousin AhmadSamani, and Nasr II. Abu Salih governed several provinces during the reign of Isma'il ibn Ahmad and AhmadSamani. The first...
Ibrahim ibn Ahmad (died 10th-century), was the amir of the Samanids briefly in 947. He was the son of AhmadSamani. Ibrahim had a brother named Nasr II...
successor, AhmadSamani (r. 907-914), Ahmad was sent in 910-11 along with other prominent Samanid officers to conquer Sistan. During the reign of Ahmad's successor...
list) – Isma'il ibn Ahmad, Amir (892–907) AhmadSamani, Amir (907–914) Nasr II, Amir (914–943) Nuh I, Amir (943–954) Ibrahim ibn Ahmad, Amir (947) Abd al-Malik...
Kutama cavalry suffers heavy losses to the Turkish archers. January 12 – AhmadSamani, emir of the Samanid Empire, is murdered (decapitation) while sleeping...
brothers—Nuh, Ahmad, Yahya, and Ilyas—founded the Samanid state. Each of them ruled territories under Abbasid suzerainty. In 892, Ismail Samani (892–907)...
empire from his capital at Bukhara. Isma'il is succeeded by his son AhmadSamani as ruler of the Samanid Empire. The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period...
ibn Ahmad, Nasr's brother, moves the capital to Bukhara after Nasr's death. 914 - Nasr II becomes amir of the Samanids after his father AhmadSamani dies...
Sultan Ahmed Ismail (born 1951), Indian soil biologist and ecologist AhmadSamani (Ahmad ibn Ismail, died 914), amir of the Samanids Ismail Ahmed (disambiguation)...
Kutama cavalry suffers heavy losses to the Turkish archers. January 12 – AhmadSamani, emir of the Samanid Empire, is murdered (decapitation) while sleeping...
was established in Transoxiana by three brothers, Nuh, Yahyā, and Ahmad. AhmadSāmāni opened the way for the Samanid dynasty to the conquest of Khorāsān...
Nasr ibn Ahmad or Nasr II (Persian: نصر دوم), nicknamed "the Fortunate", was the ruler (amir) of Transoxiana and Khurasan as the head of the Samanid dynasty...
scholar and saint, founded the Monkwearmouth–Jarrow Abbey (b. 628) 914 – AhmadSamani, Samanid emir 947 – Sang Weihan, Chinese chief of staff (b. 898) 1140...
it to the reign of Ismail Samani (r. 892–907 CE), a founder of the dynasty (b. 849), some reference Ismail's father, Ahmad, who governed Samarkand. Others...
started. The famous Samanid ruler Ismail I (Ismail Samani) (892-907) was Asad's grandson and the son of Ahmad. Frye, R.N. (1975). "The Sāmānids". In Frye, R...
Vol. I, Fasc. 1. pp. 89–95. Bosworth, C. E. (1998). "Esmāʿīl, b. Aḥmad b. Asad Sāmānī, Abū Ebrāhīm". Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. VIII, Fasc. 6. pp. 636–637...
(Louisville: Fons Vitae, 2015). Also available online at Altafsir.com. AḥmadSamʿānī, The Repose of the Spirits: A Sufi Commentary on the Divine Names. Translated...
Ibn 'Asakir. Muḫtaṣar taʾrīḫ madīnat Baġdād li-s-Samʿānī, summary of the history of Baghdad by al-Samʿānī (d. December 1166). Muḫtaṣar Ǧāmiʿ al-Mufradāt...
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