A Companion To The Achaemenid Persian Empire, Two Volume Set
The Caliphate did not remain unchallenged forever, and at some point Iran came under the manage of an assortment of dynasties that each left their impact on Iranian culture and politics. The Saffarids have been the first native Iranian dynasty to make a sturdy empire as the Caliphate weakened in the 9th century. The Ghaznavids and Ghorids in Eastern Iran had been really highly effective, and the Khwarezmshah became very a significant power that controlled most of the core Iranian territories until obtaining wiped out by the Mongols. He organized the empire into a series of regional governments, or satrapies,...