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Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran (International Library of Iranian Studies) by Parvaneh Pourshariati is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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<p><i>Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire</i> has already been praised as one of the most intellectually exciting books about ancient Persia to have been published for years. 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 decentralized 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.</p>
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- Author
- Parvaneh Pourshariati
- Publisher
- I. B. Tauris; I.B. Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation; Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781282583481
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Middle Eastern History, Humanities