The Samani dynasty, also known as the Samanid Empire, or simply Samanids (819–999), is a Sunni Muslim Persian Empire in Central Asia, named after its founder Saman Khuda, who converts to Islam despite being from Zoroastrian theocratic nobility.
It is the first native Persian dynasty in Greater Iran and Central Asia after the collapse of the Sassanid Persian empire caused by the Arab conquest.
