2022/12/29 by Камолиддин, Шамсиддин
paper · doi:10.34920/2181-8207/2022/4-041
The article deals with the question of the legal status of the Samanids dynasty, who ruled in the 9th – 10th centuries in Khurasan and Ma wara’ al-nahr. In the Soviet historiography, it was generally accepted that the Samanids were the founders of their independent state, which was not subordinate to the ‘Abbasids. Meanwhile, the information of the Arab sources of the 9th – 10th centuries, as well as the data of numismatics, indicate that the Samanids did not seek independence from the Arab Caliphate and considered themselves the governors of the ‘Abbasids in Khurasan and Ma wara’ al-nahr.