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Book Review by Ian Hughes 

 

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Sasanid Shahs would regularly persecute their Christian subjects, whom they suspected of being in alliance with Rome, and that in response war would break out with the Later Roman Empire as the emperors attempted to stop the persecution of their co-religionists. In addition, it is sometimes assumed that after the last Romano-Sasanid war the newly-converted Arabs swept away the Sasanids and imposed Islam on their newly-subject peoples...

 

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that the Sasanid Shahs would regularly persecute their Christian subjects...

 

Gotta love reviews that start like a Jane Austen novel.  ;)

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You certainly did in this case.  :)

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