Iranisches Intermezzo
Eine Periode (9.–11. Jahrhundert n. Chr.), in der lokale iranische Dynastien wie die Saffariden, Samaniden und Buyiden persische Sprache und Kultur wiederbelebten und relative Unabhängigkeit vom Abbasiden-Kalifat erlangten.
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- Period
- c. 821–1055 CE
- Main dynasties
- Tahirid, Saffarid, Samanid, Buyid
- Key achievement
- Revival of Persian language and literature
- Term coined by
- Vladimir Minorsky
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The "Iranian Intermezzo" is a term coined by the historian Vladimir Minorsky for the period between the waning of Arab dominance and the rise of the Turkic Seljuks (roughly the 9th to 11th centuries CE), during which native Iranian dynasties ruled parts of the Iranian plateau. These dynasties—including the Tahirids, Saffarids, Samanids, Ziyarids, Buyids, and the Alavids of Tabaristan—gained relative political independence from the Abbasid Caliphate. The era's most significant achievement was the revival of the Persian language and culture: the Samanid court at Bukhara and Samarkand became the cradle of New Persian poetry, producing figures such as Rudaki and (at the threshold of the era) Ferdowsi. The Shi'a Buyids even brought Baghdad and the Abbasid caliph under their control. The period ended with the Ghaznavid and then Seljuk Turkic conquests, but its cultural legacy—especially the flowering of Persian literature—endured.
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Quellen
- Encyclopædia Iranica, "Samanids" and "Buyids"
- V. Minorsky, Studies in Caucasian History
- Richard N. Frye, The Golden Age of Persia