The Muslim conquest of Persia was the conquest of the Sasanian Empire by the Rashidun Caliphate in the seventh century. The Sasanians had been weakened by their long wars with the Byzantine Empire and by internal struggles over the succession. After Arab forces gained control of Iraq, the caliphate won a decisive victory at the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah in the late 630s, and then at Nahavand in the early 640s, after which the Sasanian king Yazdegerd III fled further east. He was killed in the early 650s, ending the dynasty. Persia was gradually Islamised over the following centuries, yet the Persian language and culture survived and later reshaped the Islamic world.
Before and after
- from 632 CE to 633 CERidda Wars
- from June 632 CE to July 661 CERashidun Caliphate
- 8 June 632 CEDeath of Muhammad
- from 633 CE to 640 CEMuslim conquest of the Levant
- from 633 CE to 654 CEMuslim conquest of Persia
- 23 August 634 CEDeath of Abu Bakr
- from December 635 CE to March 636 CESiege of Emesa
- from 16 November 636 CE to 19 November 636 CEBattle of al-Qadisiyyah
- 637 CEConstruction of Potala Palace
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