POLS 3260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Muhammad Al-Mahdi, Iranian Revolution, Imamate
11 Dec 2013
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1st empire ended and a second empire emerged; sassanid"s adopted the same. Iran, most significant period is that under achamenids empire, defeated by greek religion as the previous empire. Zoroastrianism was the religion but under the first empire it was religion of people not the state, the sassanid"s changed this and turned this into a religious state. As a result of war and conflicts between persian empire and roman empire, Persian empire became weaker and weaker, when arabs moved out of peninsula they successfully defeated older civilizations mostly because of internal weaknesses of sassanid"s. Islam and moved toward arabization arabic became their language and all these became arab societies. Iran although taken over by arabs islam was both forced and accepted on. Iranian, since non-muslims had high taxes many converted to not pay taxes but. Even in order to preserve iranian culture they started translating many farsi texts into arabic, so that they keep culture and also influence arab world.
