Institute for Iranian StudiesHow did the Sasanian Empire really fall? Last month, the Sképsislamica podcast channel sat down with the IFI's Khodadad Rezakhani to find out.
The conversation ranges through how early Islam related to the Sasanians, the lack of sources from inside the Sasanian Empire, and if the Empire was truly a Zoroastrian religious autocracy as it's sometimes portrayed. How modern discourses and framings have shaped scholarship on the Empire also matters for how we process all of these ideas, and unpacking it could open different ways of looking at the Sasanians' world.
You can watch the video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTuk8u7TTu4
