The Effect of the Arab Muslim Conquest on the Administrative Division of Sasanian Persis/fars

The Effect of the Arab Muslim Conquest on the Administrative Division of Sasanian Persis/fars

Symbolically , Fars appears to have been the most important province of the sasanian empire between the third and seventh centuries A.D. The survival of the Zoroastrianism and it’s vigour in Fars after the Arab Muslim Conquest in attested by various accounts of Muslim historicans and geograp hers . Further , the redaction of many of the middle Persian text in the early . Islamic centuries in the province attests of the strength of Zoroastrianism In this essay attempts to delineate the changes that took place in the administrative geography and the administration of the province of Fars in the late sasanian / early Islamic period .