Person905–943
Nasr II
Nasr ibn Ahmad, Samanid amir of Transoxiana and Khurasan from 914 to 943, nicknamed “the Fortunate”. He came to the throne at the age of eight after his father Ahmad was murdered, and his viziers — the geographer al-Jayhani, then Abu'l-Fadl Bal'ami — governed for him and made the court at Bukhara a centre of learning and of the new Persian poetry of Rudaki. His reign was the high point of the dynasty; late in life he came under the influence of Isma'ili missionaries.
- Dates
- between 905 and 906 – 6 April 943
- Events
- 2 events
- Regions
- Central and Northern Asia
- In the threads
- Central Asia and the steppe (6th–10th c.)
Events
- The Samanid Mausoleum in Bukharabetween 892 and 943 · Central and Northern Asia
- Samanid Bukhara and the rise of New Persian literature900–999 · Central and Northern Asia