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Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire - The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran (Paperback)
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Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire - The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran (Paperback)
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I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation It
proposes a convincing contemporary answer answer to an ages-old
mystery and conundrum: why, in the seventh century CE, did the
seemingly powerful and secure Sasanian empire of Persia succumb so
quickly and disastrously to the all-conquering Arab armies of
Islam? Offering an impressive appraisal of the Sasanians' nemesis
at the hands of the Arab forces which scythed all before them, the
author suggests a bold solution to the enigma. On the face of it,
the collapse of the Sasanians - given their strength and imperial
power in the earlier part of the century - looks startling and
inexplicable. But Professor Pourshariati explains their fall in
terms of an earlier corrosion and decline, and as a result of their
own internal weaknesses. The decentralised dynastic system of the
Sasanian empire, whose backbone was a Sasanian-Parthian alliance,
contained the seeds of its own destruction. This confederacy soon
became unstable, and its degeneration sealed the fate of a doomed
dynasty.
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