►How did the mighty Sasanian Persian Empire fall to the Muslim Arabs?

►What happened in the Persian Empire on February 9, in the year 628? ►How did the Sasanian royal attempt to retake Iran from the Muslims? ►Where is the tomb of the heir to the Sasanian throne - the last Sasanian King of kings, the last pre-Islamic Shah of Iran?

🚩About My Guest:

⁠Dr. Khodadad Rezakhani⁠ is a lecturer and a senior research fellow at Leiden University. He is a historian of Global Late Antiquity and Early Middle Ages, with a focus on Central and West Asia from 500-700 CE. His research focuses on the Sasanian and Early Islamic economy of the Near East.

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Image attribution: Map of the Sasanian Empire at its greatest extent in 621 CE. The Sasanian Empire lasted from 624 to 651 CE. This map reflects the Persians conquest under Shahanshah (King of kings) Khosrow II (570-628, r. 590 & 591-628). No Iranian Shah had achieved such immense territorial gains since Cyrus the Great (600 BCE to 530 BCE). This map is provided by Keeby101: ⁠https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Keeby101⁠, on Wikipedia: ⁠https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sasanian_Empire_621_A.D.jpg#/media/File:Sasanian_Empire_621_A.D.jpg⁠, under license CC BY-SA 3.0 ⁠ttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/⁠. Reflective effect has been added to the bottom portion of the map, and its edges have been rounded.
Derafsh Kaviani: Sasanian royal standard that was derived from a mythological Iranian blacksmith-turned-hero (Kaveh) against a demon-like foreign ruler. Public Domain image.

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Santur: Peyman Heydarian playing on the Santur some Iranian music. Recorded with a Sony PCM-D50 at the School of Oriental and African Studies of London on April 7th 2011.

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Thanksgiving Daily 16 of 30 - The Difficult Challenges You Overcame