Touraj Daryaee. “From Zoroastrian to Islamic Iran: A Note on the Christian Intermezzo”

The transition period from Sasanian to Islamic Iran is a key moment for the upcoming history of both Europe and Asia. It is indeed crucial to put the pieces together to draw the complex picture of this central Islamic authority which used intermediaries and local functionaries of different religions. Among the others, there were Christian communities. R. Curiel and especially R. Gyselen studied and catalogued the Iranian copper coinage from the 7th to the 8th centuries CE which was minted in..