Ahmad Alhawwat; MohammadTaghi Imanpour
Abstract
Sassanids' rule over Syria during the reign of Khosrow Parviz (604-628 AD) has been discussed by scholars of ancient history over the past hundred years. Many of them believed that ...
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Sassanids' rule over Syria during the reign of Khosrow Parviz (604-628 AD) has been discussed by scholars of ancient history over the past hundred years. Many of them believed that the Sassanids' rule in Syria ended the collapse of social and economic institutions and structures of the Syrian land during the time of Khosrow Parviz and have described it as very negative and destructive. In this article, it has been tried to show that on contrary to the common opinion and based on historical evidence and using written sources and archaeological data to show that the Sassanids' rule in Syria did not cause the collapse of the administrative, socio-cultural and economic structures of this land, but the previous structures with slight changes continued in this period. It seems after military domination over this land, the Sassanids re-organized the previous administrative structure and order with a few changes, although they took over the political and military management, but, the financial and civil management of the land remained under the control of local urban aristocrats and religious leaders. By using the method of historical research, it has been done descriptively-analytically.
