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Decline and fall of the Sasanian empire :

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Decline and fall of the Sasanian empire :

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the Sasanian-Parthian confederacy and the Arab conquest of Iran /

Parvaneh Pourshariati.

Paperback edition.

London :

I.B. Tauris,

2017.

1 online resource (xiv, 537 pages) :

illustrations, maps

Originally published in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-498) and index.

"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Ingram Content Group

9781786729811

Decline and fall of the Sasanian empire.

9781784537470

Parthians.

Sassanids.

Ancient history: to c 500 CE.

Diplomatic relations.

HISTORY-- Civilization.

Parthians.

Sassanids.

Iran, Foreign relations, Rome.

Iran, Foreign relations, To 640.

Iran, History, To 640.

Rome, Foreign relations, Iran.

Iran.

Rome (Empire)

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