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| The [[Samanid Empire|Samanid Dynasty]] was ruled by the Samanids, who despite their contested Persian ancestry, justified their rise to power through claims of descent from a powerful Persian family, the identification of which also differs between scholars<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":10">{{cite journal |last1=Michailidis |first1=Melanie |title=Samanid Silver and Trade along the Fur Route |journal=Medieval Encounters |date=2012 |pages=318, 319 |doi=10.1163/15700674-12342119}}</ref>. The claim was particularly useful in promoting the usage and development of the Persian language through the patronage of poets and minstrels<ref name=":0" />. Due to the fact that the dynasty was Islamic, this process was additionally significant for how it dispelled the notion of Islam as being tied to Arab ethnicity, thereby opening it up as a world religion<ref name=":10" />. | The [[Samanid Empire|Samanid Dynasty]] was ruled by the Samanids, who despite their contested Persian ancestry, justified their rise to power through claims of descent from a powerful Persian family, the identification of which also differs between scholars<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":10">{{cite journal |last1=Michailidis |first1=Melanie |title=Samanid Silver and Trade along the Fur Route |journal=Medieval Encounters |date=2012 |pages=318, 319 |doi=10.1163/15700674-12342119}}</ref>. The claim was particularly useful in promoting the usage and development of the Persian language through the patronage of poets and minstrels<ref name=":0" />. Due to the fact that the dynasty was Islamic, this process was additionally significant for how it dispelled the notion of Islam as being tied to Arab ethnicity, thereby opening it up as a world religion<ref name=":10" />. |
| Though the dynasty is well recognized for its ceramics, its connections to surrounding and even preceding cultures can be gleaned from other products of its visual culture including textiles, silver, and architecture. Samanid textiles draw from [[Sasanian|Sasanian Empire]] and Sogdian silks with their pearl borders and imagery of birds and other animals confronting each other, often carrying or wearing necklaces and scarves<ref name=":10" />. Silver vessels and architecture similarly show Sasanian influences, the former in their crafting techniques and motifs, and the latter in how the dynasty’s most well known structure, a mausoleum in Bukhara, has pearls lining its interior as well as a derivative of the four arches seen in Zoroastrian fire temples of Sasanian Iran<ref name=":10" />. | Though the dynasty is well recognized for its ceramics, its connections to surrounding and even preceding cultures can be gleaned from other products of its visual culture including textiles, silver, and architecture. Samanid textiles draw from [[Sasanian]] and Sogdian silks with their pearl borders and imagery of birds and other animals confronting each other, often carrying or wearing necklaces and scarves<ref name=":10" />. Silver vessels and architecture similarly show Sasanian influences, the former in their crafting techniques and motifs, and the latter in how the dynasty’s most well known structure, a mausoleum in Bukhara, has pearls lining its interior as well as a derivative of the four arches seen in Zoroastrian fire temples of Sasanian Iran<ref name=":10" />. |
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