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In 628 AD, Rome and Persia agree to the terms of a perpetual peace, after 25 years of a bloody war that almost destroyed the Roman Empire and wroke havoc in all the Near East...
In the meantime, the Prophet Muhammad united several Arab tribes under the banner of a new religion, Islam. At his death in 632, the West of the Arabian Peninsula was under Muslim domination.
It took 2 more years to impose their rule over the rest of the Arabs, their main opponents being the Ghassanids near the Roman border.
During the 5th century, Romans and Persians relied on the services of Arab states and their mercenaries. These buffer states were also very important for the projection of imperial power into the Arabian desert.
Allied with Rome, the Ghassanids. They adopted Christianity but their Monophysist tendencies were not appreciated by Maurice... Besides, Maurice and the Ghassanid king failed on taking Ctesiphon, the Persian capital.
Of course, each one blamed the other and the Arab king was exiled, marking the beginning of the end for this powerful tribe...
Allied with Persia, the Lakhmids. Powerful tribe either, living near the Euphrates. Their last king seems to have adopted the Nestorian faith, which proclaims that Jesus is a man (as his mother is human)
who has been chosen by God. But above all, he refused to give his daughter in marriage to the Sassanid emperor Khosrau II. Consequently, the Lakhmid king was stripped of his kingdom and killed...
After Muhammad's death, his successor the Caliph Abu Bakr (632-634) extended the Muslim rule over these tribes, marking the end of a first phase : from now on, Arabia was under his sole command...
That result has not been easy to obtain... But at the battle of Al-Hira (May 633), the Lakhmids were vanquished and at Marj Rahit (July 634), the Christian army of the Ghassanids was destroyed...
After having achieved all of this, the Muslims were ready to wage a war against both Rome and Persia...
None of them would be able to resist, and the Sassanids would disappear from History very soon...
In the meantime, the Prophet Muhammad united several Arab tribes under the banner of a new religion, Islam. At his death in 632, the West of the Arabian Peninsula was under Muslim domination.
It took 2 more years to impose their rule over the rest of the Arabs, their main opponents being the Ghassanids near the Roman border.
During the 5th century, Romans and Persians relied on the services of Arab states and their mercenaries. These buffer states were also very important for the projection of imperial power into the Arabian desert.
Allied with Rome, the Ghassanids. They adopted Christianity but their Monophysist tendencies were not appreciated by Maurice... Besides, Maurice and the Ghassanid king failed on taking Ctesiphon, the Persian capital.
Of course, each one blamed the other and the Arab king was exiled, marking the beginning of the end for this powerful tribe...
Allied with Persia, the Lakhmids. Powerful tribe either, living near the Euphrates. Their last king seems to have adopted the Nestorian faith, which proclaims that Jesus is a man (as his mother is human)
who has been chosen by God. But above all, he refused to give his daughter in marriage to the Sassanid emperor Khosrau II. Consequently, the Lakhmid king was stripped of his kingdom and killed...
After Muhammad's death, his successor the Caliph Abu Bakr (632-634) extended the Muslim rule over these tribes, marking the end of a first phase : from now on, Arabia was under his sole command...
That result has not been easy to obtain... But at the battle of Al-Hira (May 633), the Lakhmids were vanquished and at Marj Rahit (July 634), the Christian army of the Ghassanids was destroyed...
After having achieved all of this, the Muslims were ready to wage a war against both Rome and Persia...
None of them would be able to resist, and the Sassanids would disappear from History very soon...
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And so, the light of Ahura Mazda faded away, His divine and eternal flame, snuffed out...
Even though I identify as a muslim, I can't help but feel melancholy and rage, when all the splendor and glory of such things are gone in this world.
There has been a lot to learn from Zoroastrians; even more so when their religion preached nothing else but to be a good man or woman. That, and it's the first monotheistic organized religion of the world.
And when it comes to Rome (I refuse to call the true heirs of Rome, Byzantines. Even they called themselves Basileia ton Rhomaion - Roman Empire), well, we owe our music, our administrations and societies very much to their models and
laws. Corpus Juris Civilis is still taught in Law schools as one of the first lessons. Hagia Sophia still stands as a marvel to behold, and both the Western and especially Eastern music theory is based on Orthodox chants.
What can I say? It was a time of legends. A time of glory, beauty and love. And it is all gone. That is enough to feel melancholic.
Even though I identify as a muslim, I can't help but feel melancholy and rage, when all the splendor and glory of such things are gone in this world.
There has been a lot to learn from Zoroastrians; even more so when their religion preached nothing else but to be a good man or woman. That, and it's the first monotheistic organized religion of the world.
And when it comes to Rome (I refuse to call the true heirs of Rome, Byzantines. Even they called themselves Basileia ton Rhomaion - Roman Empire), well, we owe our music, our administrations and societies very much to their models and
laws. Corpus Juris Civilis is still taught in Law schools as one of the first lessons. Hagia Sophia still stands as a marvel to behold, and both the Western and especially Eastern music theory is based on Orthodox chants.
What can I say? It was a time of legends. A time of glory, beauty and love. And it is all gone. That is enough to feel melancholic.