Identifier: persiapastpresen01jack (find matches)
Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937
Subjects: Zoroastrianism
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Yazdagard hi slain in,.a Mill at Merv(From the Columbia University Manuscript of the Shah Namah) FROM CYRUS TO THE PRESENT SHAH 27 ing a world-empire was shattered by the Arab invasion, whichresulted in the conquest of Persia and the overthrow of theZoroastrian dynasty of the Sasanidse, a.d. 651. With thedeath of Yazdagard III, who was treacherously slain in thatyear after being defeated in battle, the Sasanid line came toan end, the Zoroastrian faith, which had been the state re-ligion for more than a thousand years, was deposed, and Islamtook its place as the national religion of Iran. The centuries which followed were often marked by mis-rule, invasion, and even foreign rule. A succession of longeror shorter lived dynasties, like the Ommiads (a.d. 661-749), Abbasids (749-847), Ghaznavids (961-1186), Seljuks(about 1030-1200), the Mongols under Jenghiz Khan (1162-1227) and under his grandson Hulagu (d. 1265), who main-tained his court at Maraghah, and the Tartars under TimurLang (d.

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