"Persian Prose Literature." World Eras. 2002. HighBeam Research. (3 September 2012);"Princes, although they were often tutored in Arabic and religious subjects, frequently did not feel as comfortable with the Arabic language and preferred literature in Persian, which was either their mother tongue—as in the case of dynasties such as the Saffarids (861–1003), Samanids (873–1005), and Buyids (945–1055)—or was a preferred lingua franca for them—as with the later Turkish dynasties such as the Ghaznawids (977–1187) and Saljuks (1037–1194) ". [1]Архивная копия от 2 мая 2013 на Wayback Machine
"Persian Prose Literature." World Eras. 2002. HighBeam Research. (3 September 2012);"Princes, although they were often tutored in Arabic and religious subjects, frequently did not feel as comfortable with the Arabic language and preferred literature in Persian, which was either their mother tongue—as in the case of dynasties such as the Saffarids (861–1003), Samanids (873–1005), and Buyids (945–1055)—or was a preferred lingua franca for them—as with the later Turkish dynasties such as the Ghaznawids (977–1187) and Saljuks (1037–1194) ". [1]Архивная копия от 2 мая 2013 на Wayback Machine
The Ghaznavids inherited Samanid administrative, political, and cultural traditions and laid the foundations for a Persianate state in northern India
Spuler Bertold.The Disintegration of the Caliphate in the East // Cambridge History of Islam / ed. by P.M. Holt[англ.]; Ann K.S. Lambton[англ.]; Bernard Lewis. — First ed. — Cambr.: Cambridge University Press, 1970. — Vol. IA: The Central islamic Lands from Pre-Islamic Times to the First World War. — P. 147. — 544 p.
Оригинальный текст (англ.)
Firdawsi was writing his Shah-nama. One of the effects of the renaissance of the Persian spirit evoked by this work was that the Ghaznavids were also persianized and thereby became a Persian dynasty