Internal struggles in the era of the Samanid state (261-390 AH/874-999 AD)

Abstract

The Samanid state was one of the independent states that appeared in the Islamic East, and this state was attributed to Saman bin Bahram The Samanid state was established in the year (261 AH / 874 AD) and was one of the most powerful independent states in the Islamic East. The various interiors that led to its fall later.

The Samanid state witnessed a diversity of internal conflicts, and it was the first independent country in which conflicts emerged between the brothers, where Prince Nasr al-Samani and his brother, Prince Ismail al-Samani, and this conflict was a financial struggle that turned into a military conflict that almost ended the state at the beginning of its inception, and it also witnessed conflicts The leaders and their rebellions and their greed for expansion and annexation of countries in their favor. It also witnessed civil wars, perhaps due to the young age of the emir, in addition to the interference of women in the political affairs of the state, which was one of the reasons that led to its downfall.

This state did not suffer only from internal conflicts. A new enemy appeared on the scene of events, represented by the Buyids who aspired to establish a state of their own. All of this was a military burden on the state. Thus, the state struggles on more than one front, internally on the one hand, and externally on the other.