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Decline and fall of the Sasanian empire : the Sasanian-Parthian confederacy and the Arab conquest of Iran / Parvaneh Pourshariati.

By: Pourshariati, ParvanehMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : New York : I.B. Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation ; Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Description: xiv, 537 p. : ill., map, geneal. table ; 24 cmISBN: 9781845116453 (hbk.); 1845116453 (hbk.)Subject(s): Sassanids | Parthians | Iran -- Foreign relations -- Rome | Rome -- Foreign relations -- Iran | Iran -- Foreign relations -- To 640 | Iran -- History -- To 640Genre/Form: HistoryDDC classification: 935.07 LOC classification: DS286 | .P68 2008
Contents:
Introduction. The problem ; Sources and methodology -- Preliminaries. The Arsacids ; Agnatic families -- I. Political history. Sasanian polity revisited: the Sasanian-Parthian confederacy ; The Arab conquest of Iran ; Dynastic politics of Ṭabaristān -- II. Religious currents. Sasanian religious landscape ; Revolts of late antiquity in Khurāsān and Ṭabaristān -- Conclusion -- Tables, figures and map.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 473-498) and index.

Introduction. The problem ; Sources and methodology -- Preliminaries. The Arsacids ; Agnatic families -- I. Political history. Sasanian polity revisited: the Sasanian-Parthian confederacy ; The Arab conquest of Iran ; Dynastic politics of Ṭabaristān -- II. Religious currents. Sasanian religious landscape ; Revolts of late antiquity in Khurāsān and Ṭabaristān -- Conclusion -- Tables, figures and map.