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Sep 20, 2022 · The Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam, 224–651 is the first comprehensive study in English examining war and society in one of the most important empires in world history: the Persian Empire of 224-651 AD, ruled by the Sasanian clan. At its height the Sasanians governed lands from the Indus River in the east to Egypt ...
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- Michael J. Decker
Feb 13, 2013 · According to the traditions Arab/Islam empire came out of nowhere and swept the Persian empire, this book indirectly busts that myth by highlighting the infighting of sassanians that destabilized the empire from within.
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- Touraj Daryaee
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- I.B. Tauris
The most recent study is P. Pourshariati's Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire (2008), arguing that rather than being a strong centralised state, the Sasanian Empire was very decentralised, more akin to a confederacy of multiple ethnic groups than the bureaucratic Roman state.
Sep 20, 2022 · In this book, Michael J. Decker examines Sasanian warfare, including military capabilities, major confrontations, organization and weapons of the Persian army.
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Feb 17, 2007 · In this clear and comprehensive new book, Touraj Daryaee provides an unrivalled account of Sasanian Persia. Using new sources, he paints a vivid portrait of the empire's often neglected social history and examines the development of its political and administrative institutions.
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Mar 30, 2017 · 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.
- Parvaneh Pourshariati
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In 'History of the Sasanian Empire,' George Rawlinson presents a meticulously researched narrative of the Neo-Persian Empire, the enduring realm that reigned from 224 to 651 AD before succumbing...
