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Decline and fall of the Sasanian empire : the Sasanian-Parthian confederacy and the Arab conquest of Iran

Proposes an 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?
Print Book, English, 2008
I.B. Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation, London, 2008