The Climatic Resilience of the Sasanian Empire. [PDF]
Abstract The Sasanian Empire (224–651 CE) has been given relatively little attention in research on climate-society interactions when compared to the neighboring Byzantine Empire, despite evidence of changing conditions and an agricultural economy that is theoretically vulnerable to droughts due to low annual precipitation.
Jacobson MJ, Gascoigne AL, Fleitmann D.
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The Effect of the Sasanian-Byzantine Wars (A.D. 603-628) on the Collapse of Sasanian Empire [PDF]
Sasanian Empire in the early 7th century AD, due to long years of wars with Byzantine Empire (603-626 AD) and its later defeat, lost its military and defensive strength, and went through a political crisis.
Mehrdad Ghodrat Dizaji
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Relics and episcopal Authority in Sasanian Iran [PDF]
This paper analyzes the relationship between episcopacy and the cult of the relics in Sasanian Empire. It will be argued that the cult of martyrs’ relics contributed to the shift in the definition of episcopal Authority in the Church of the East in Fifth
Héctor Ricardo Francisco
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A Note on Sasanian Glassware and Zoroastrian Sacred Numbers (Sasanian to Post-Sasanian Periods) [PDF]
The Sasanian Empire was one of the most important periods in ancient Iran and one that experienced flourishingof the Zoroastrian religion. As the official religion in the Sasanian to post-Sasanian period, Zoroastrianism can beunderstood better by ...
Daryoosh Akbarzadeh
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A Reassessment of Two Theories of Pourshariatiʼs Thriple View in her “Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran” [PDF]
Parvaneh Pourshariati’s study, “Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire. The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran”, is a substantial investigation that offers a novel perspective supported by a great number of details and data from
Yaser Malekzadeh, Sorour Khorashadi
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An Analysis of Manichaeism as the First Ideological Challenge During the Sasanian Dynasty [PDF]
With the establishment of the Sasanian empire, Ardashir became the heir to the feudal and lenient legacy of the Parthians. He sought to establish political and religious centralism under his reign.
Azim Shahbakhsh
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A Critique of the Book Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian–Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran [PDF]
Historians and scholars have cited many reasons for Sasanian’s defeat by the Arab. In 2008, Parvaneh Pourshariati revived this topic by publishing the book Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire: The Sasanian–Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest ...
Afshin Khosrosani
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A Critical Note on Golden Shipwreck Tang at Asian Civilizations Museum of Singapore [PDF]
Obviously, the Sasanian era is one of the most magnificent historical periods of Iran. However, the collapse of the Sasanian Empire and the migration of thousands of Sasanian musicians and artists along with the royal dynasty (Yazdgerd III) became a new ...
Daryoosh Akbarzadeh
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The Bones of Khosrow: The Sacred Topography of Ctesiphon
This essay discusses the importance of Ctesiphon in the historical and literary tradition of Sasanian and Post-Sasanian Iran.
Touraj Daryaee
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Field of the Administrative Geography of the Sasanian Empire on the Auspicious Occasion of the Publication of La Géographie Administrative de l’Émpire Sassanide. Les Témoignages Épigraphiques en Moyen-Perse [PDF]
The political and administrative structures of the Sasanian Empire have been the focus of numerous research. For the rather recent developments of the subject, though, Rika Gyselen’s studies have been crucial.
Hossein Habibi
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