Islamic Conquest of Persia
Islamische Eroberung Persiens
چیرگی اسلامی بر ایران زمین
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"Persien bzw.das persische Volk wurde vor 1400 Jahren genauso wie die heutigen Nicht-Moslems im Irak und Syrien durch den islamischen Staat genannt ISIS zwangsislamisiert.Das obige Video und der folgende Text zeigen das wahre Gesicht des Islams."
History: Islamic Conquest of Persia
By 639, Islam's growing new caliphate included the Arabian Peninsula, Syria, Palestine, and most of Mesopotamia. The Muslims had delivered a devastating blow to the Christian Byzantine Empire, and they were well on their way to completely conquering all of the Zoroastrian Persian Empire.For the time being the Byzantines had withdrawn from Syria and Palestine. The Muslims now had full control over the region, occupying crucial cities like Jerusalem and Damascus. They subjected the helpless common people of these regions to a long period of plunder and slave-raids (Michel le Syrien, 2: 418).
Michael the Syrian, an Armenian chronicler, recounts the events:
"Umar (ibn al-Khattab) sent Khalid (ibn Walid) with an army to the Aleppo and Antioch region. There, they murdered a large number of people. No one escaped them. Whatever may be said of the evils that Syria suffered, they cannot be recounted because of their great number; for the Taiyaye (the Arabs) were the great rod of God's wrath."
-Chronique de Michel le Syrien, trans. From Syriac by Jean-Baptiste Chabot (Paris, 1901), 2: 421.
Congruent with their conquest of Byzantine Syria, the Muslims attacked the Persian Empire, which greatly impacted not only the Zoroastrian Persians, but also the various Christian peoples settled within these territories (Bat Ye'or, The Decline of Eastern Christianity Under Islam, from Jihad to Dhimmitude (London, 1996), 46).
The attack on the Persians was first concentrated in the south, around Ubulla, and somewhat farther north on the Euphrates, close to Hira. Arab Christian tribes long settled in Mesopotamia collaborated with the Persians in the defense (Fred McGraw Donner, The Early Islamic Conquests (Princeton, 1981), 117).
However, other Arabs living in the area, attracted by the prospect of plunder, took up with the Muslims, acting as a valuable internal source to the invaders (Francois Nau, Les Arabes Chretians de Mesopotamie et de Syria du VII au VIIIe siècle (Paris, 1933), 100-13). As an example, the Banu Ijill tribe sent messages to the Caliph Umar at Medina about areas of weakness in the Persian territories ripe for assault (Bat Ye'or, 46).
Overwhelming the Persian forces with raids on a mass scale, the Arabs were able to expand their pillaging into the southcentral villages of Iraq, around Mada'in. In November of 636 the Arabs faced the main Persian army at the Battle of al-Qadisiyya. It was a decisive victory for the Arabs which broke Persian power in Iraq. Once again, the Arabs now had free access to the farms and countryside, pillaging and grabbing slaves everywhere (Donner, 210). Umar sent reinforcements from Medina to maximize the capturing of booty (Bat Ye'or, 46).
A Muslim source, Ibn al-Balkhi, writing during the fourteenth century, documented these events:
"In the early days of Islam, after Fars (Persia) had been conquered (by the Arabs), for a time there was nothing but massacre and pillage and all things were taken by force, but at length matters quieted down, and the ruin and the disorder that had overspread the land began to be amended."
-Ibn al Balkhi, in Guy Le Strange, Description of the Province of the Fars in Persia at the beginning of the fourteenth century A.D. (London, 1912), 83.
The Arabs pillaged the local monasteries, slaughtering the monks, while they massacred, enslaved, or forcibly Islamized the Monophysite Christian Arabs (Michel le Syrien, 403-4, 413). In Elam the population was decimated, the upper classes put to the sword (Bat Ye'or, Decline of Christianity Under Islam, 46).
By 642 the Arab conquest of Mesopotamia was complete.
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