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Book Review
By Ghasem Bayat
Shahin Nezhad has just published a book on the Rise and Fall of the Sassanid Empire. The book provides a vast body of old and new information that covers well over four centuries of the history of this dynasty and its neighbouring powers, the Eastern Roman Empire and all the surrounding nations, the Armenians, the Arabs, and the northern and the eastern tribes.
Nezhad’s much shorter but substantive treatment of the Iran’s history of the Sassanid era brings to mind the classical work of Edward Gibbons “The decline and the fall of the Roman Empire”. Nezhad’s masterful analysis of the history of all those powers and the root-causes that eventually led to the fall of the Persians and the rising of the Islamic Caliphate is noteworthy. Among them were the undue influence of the religious leaders in the affairs of the state, the ruinous wars of the Romans and the Persians partly due to the religious zeal of both empires, the religious conflicts within and without the Empire’s borders, the devolution of the power, land and wealth of the nobility, that are highlighted in Nezhad’s book.
I highly recommend the reading of this informative and well researched and well written book.
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