The Samanids
- Bukhara and Samarkand in Transoxiana became famous Samanid cultural centres. An illustrated article.
- http://www.artarena.force9.co.uk/samanid.htm

Samanids
- Brief profiles of Samanid rulers, from the Islamic Dictionary. [English and Arabic]
- http://dictionary.al-islam.com/Eng/Dicts/SelDict.asp?Lang=Eng&DI=51&Theme=67

Samanid
- An overview of one of the first purely indigenous dynasties to rule in Persia following the Muslim Arab conquest.
- http://www.bartleby.com/65/sa/Samanid.html