Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire
Subtitle: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran
Publisher: I. B. Tauris; I.B. Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation; Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 13, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9781845116453
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: BCE to c 500 CE; Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 500 to c 1500; BCE to c 500 CE; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; History; History: World; Persian Empire; Islam - History; Middle East - General; Religion / Islam / History
Description: "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.