The presentation is about samanid dynasty and its major architecture

1. SAMANID DYNASTY
819–999
ARIBA SIDDIQUI AR-006
FIZZA FATIMA AR-007

3. BACKGROUND
• The Samanid dynasty also known as the Samanid Empire (819–
999) was a Sunni Persian Empire in Central Asia, named after its
founder Saman Khuda, a landowner from Balkh who converted
to Islam despite being from Zoroastrian nobility.
• The Samanid Empire was the first native dynasty to arise in Iran after
the Muslim Arab conquest. It was renowned for the impulse that it
gave to Iranian national sentiment and learning, . For the first time
after the Arab Invasion, Persian becomes the official langue of the
court and replaces Arabic.
• The Samanids revived Persian culture by
patronizing Rudaki,Bal'ami and Daqiqi.They also determinedly
propagated Sunni Islam.

4. CONTRIBUTIONS
• Islamic architecture and Islamo-Persian culture was spread
deep into the heart of Central Asia by the Samanids.
• Following the first complete translation of the Qur'an into
Persian, during the 9th century, populations under the
Samanid empire began accepting Islam in significant
numbers.
• The changes, which came with the emerge of the
Samanids in the agriculture, commerce, architecture, city
building, coinage, textiles, and metalwork, were due in
many respects to the stability and safety political situation
of the country.

5. • Another contribution of the Samanids to the history of Islamic art
is the pottery known as Samanid Epigraphic Ware: plates, bowls,
and pitchers fired in a white slip and decorated only with
calligraphy.
• The Sāmānids developed a technique known as slip painting:
mixing semi fluid clay (slip) with their colors to prevent the
designs from running when fired with the thin fluid glazes used
at that time.
• DECLINE:
• The power of the Samanids began to crumble in the latter
half of the 10th century. In 962, one the ghulams, Alp Tigin,
commander of the army in Khurasan, seized Ghazna and
established himself there His successors, however,
including Sebük Tigin, continued to rule as Samanid
"governors". With the weakened Samanids.

6. SAMANID ARCHITECTURE
• Little is left of the Samanid city except the tenth-
century mausoleum of the Samanid rulers known as
THE MAUSOLEUM OF ISMA’IL THE SAMANID.
• This is one of the earliest examples of Islamic
funerary architecture.

7. • Persian dome architecture, such
as mausoleums and mosques,
succeeded from the form of the
Zoroastrian Chahar-taqf created
before the birth of Islam.
• The Samanid mausoleum is
located in the historical urban
nucleus of the city of Bukhara,
in a park laid out on the site of
an ancient cemetery. This
mausoleum, one of the most
esteemed sights of Central
Asian architecture, was built in
the 9th (10th) century (between
892 and 943) as the resting-
place of Ismail Samani - a
powerful and influential amir of
the Samanid dynasty.

8. • This made up of a brick
with a dome of 5.7m in
diameter on the tomb
hall, based on a plan of
9.3m square.
• The corners of the
building are formed by
engaged cylindrical brick
piers whilst the corners
of the dome are marked
by small domed finials.
• In the centre of each
side there is a recessed
niche containing a door
which acts as a focus for
the surface decoration.

9. • The main form of
decoration is small, flat,
tile-like bricks laid
alternately in vertical or
horizontal groups of
three. Another
decorative technique is
bricks laid horizontally in
groups of three with one
corner projecting
outwards producing a
dog-tooth pattern.
• At the top of the exterior
facade there is an arcade
of small niches which
mask the zone of
transition and also
provide light to the
interior.

10. • The decoration of
the interior is
similar to the
exterior facade
although here tiles
are set vertically on
end producing a
diaper pattern.