TY - BOOK AU - Pourshariati,Parvaneh TI - Decline and fall of the Sasanian empire: the Sasanian-Parthian confederacy and the Arab conquest of Iran SN - 9781845116453 (hbk.) AV - DS286 .P68 2008 U1 - 935.07 22 PY - 2008/// CY - London, New York, New York PB - I.B. Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation, Distributed in the U.S.A. by Palgrave Macmillan KW - Sassanids KW - Parthians KW - Iran KW - Foreign relations KW - Rome KW - To 640 KW - History N1 - 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 ER -