Conquest of Persia: Birth of New Civilizational Entity

  October 24, 2020   Read time 1 min
Conquest of Persia: Birth of New Civilizational Entity
Arrival of Arabs paved the path for new cultural activities in Persia. Islam created new incentives for brilliant Persian minds to contemplate on fresh issues and problems. Of course, Persia had many things to offer in return. Early Muslims learned how to arrange their governmental positions just through reviewing the legacy of Ancient Persia.

Although the conquerors, especially the Umayyads (the Muslim rulers who succeeded Mohammad from 661-750), tended to stress the primacy of Arabs among Muslims, the Iranians were gradually integrated into the new community. The Muslim conquerors adopted the Sassanid coinage system and many Sassanid administrative practices, including the office of vizier, or minister, and the divan, a bureau or register for controlling state revenue and expenditure that became a characteristic of administration throughout Muslim lands. Later caliphs adopted Iranian court ceremonial practices and the trappings of Sassanid monarchy. Men of Iranian origin served as administrators after the conquest, and Iranians contributed significantly to all branches of Islamic learning, including philology, literature, history, geography, jurisprudence, philosophy, medicine, and the sciences (Source: ICS).


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