# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ismail-samani
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:40:25.795Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ismail-samani"
name: "Ismail Samani"
slug: "ismail-samani"
description: "Abū Ibrāhīm Ismā'īl ibn-i Aḥmad-i Sāmāni, better known simply as Amir Ismail-i Samani, and also known as Isma'il ibn-i Ahmad, was the Samanid amir of Transoxiana (892–907) and Khorasan (900–907). His reign saw the emergence of the Samanids as a powerful force. He was the son of Ahmad ibn-i Asad and a descendant of Saman Khuda, the eponymous ancestor of the Samanid dynasty who renounced Zoroastrianism and embraced Islam."
tagline: "Amir of the Samanid Empire from 892 to 907"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TajikistanP19-100Somoni-1999(2000)-donatedeh_f.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "849"
deathDate: "0907-11-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump