Samanids and Oghuz Turks
Authors : Shamsiddin Kamoliddin
Pages : 1-20
Doi:10.23897/usad.1772837
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Publication Date : 2025-12-31
Article Type : Research Paper
Abstract :This paper discusses Oghuz origin of the Samanids dynasty. The ancestor of the Samanids was originated from the Oghuz tribes of Khurasan, which were in military service of the Sasanids. Another ancestor of the Samanids Saman Khudat is mentioned in “Oghuz-Nama” as Saman Yabghu among ancestors of the Oghuz tribes. The Samanids dynasty relied on the military power of the Oghuz tribes throughout their rule. The Oghuz Turks were the closest, most trusted, and most loyal people of the Samanids dynasty. The Samanid Amir Mansur ibn Nuh was married a daughter of “malik al-Sin” the king of the Qarakhanids Khanate in the East Turkistan, who was originated from the Toquz-Oghuz Turks. The last Samanid Amir Abu Ibrahim Isma‘il ibn Nuh, known as al-Amir al-Muntasir (died in 395/1004-05) married a daughter of Yabghu, the leader of the Ghuzz Turks, and became related to him. In the sources of the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries, a certain Jandi Bek is mentioned as “a descendant of Isma‘il al-Samani”, who became related to the Juchids, marrying his daughter to Ming Timur Khan, who was the grandson of Juchi Buka and a descendant of Shaiban Khan in the fourth generation. Believes that this Jandi Bek, who lived in the fourteenth century, was a descendant of the last Samanid Amir al-Muntasir from his marriage with the daughter of Yabghu, the leader of the Ghuzz Turks. A descendant of Ming Timur Khan from the daughter of Jandi Bek in the fourth generation, Abu-l-Khair Khan (1412 – 1468), was the founder of the state of nomadic Uzbeks in Dasht-i Qipchaq. His grandson Muhammad Shaibani Khan (1451 – 1510) was the founder of the Uzbek dynasty of Shaibanids, who ruled in Central Asia in 1501 – 1601.Keywords : Türkistan, Horasan, Oğuz Türkleri, Behram Çubin, Buhara, Sâmân Hudat, “Oğuz-Nama”, Sâmânoğulları, Selçuklu Türkleri
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