Areas of tolerance of Samanids with Ismailis
Subject Areas : Journal of History (Tarikh)mohammad najafi 1 , hasan shadpoor 2 , mahbobeh esmaeili 3
1 - phd student, history department, shahroud branch, islamic azad university, shahroud ,iran
2 - assistant professor, shahroud branch, islamic azad university, shahroud ,iran
3 - history department , shahrod branch, islamic azad university, shahroud , iran
Keywords: Shiism, Samanids, Abbasid caliphate, Ismailis,
Abstract :
The Ismailis who have been given various names are an extension of the Shiite religion and believe Ismael and his son are righteous for Imamate after Imam Jafar Sadegh. Through its ups and downs, this dynasty had interactions and confrontations with the incumbent governments among which their interaction with the Samanid, as one of the most Iranian government of the history, is significantly important. Therefore, based on the necessity of explaining and recognizing the history of the Samanids and the type of their interaction with the Ismailis, in this descriptive-analytical study, we will examine the most important social contexts of the Samanids' tolerance of the Ismailis and explain its consequences. In addition, rooting out the causes and factors of the Ismaili's influence and expansion, especially among the Samanids and the role and policies of the political and cultural leaders of the two sides in the results of these ups and downs, is another case that this study intends to explain. The results of this study indicated that areas like the Iranian origin of the Samanids, their open religious policy, the influence of Shiite ideas on the Samanid rulers and the relative economic, social and security stability in Khorasan and Transoxiana were among the factors that paved the way for positive Samanid interaction with the Ismailis which , in consequence, made the Ismailis able to take advantage of this opportunity to succeed in their invitation and to expand the realm of their invitation.
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