Conquest of Persia by the Arabs, short

Conquest of Persia by the Arabs

    After the battle of Jalula, caliph Umar was not inclined to under take any further campaigns against the Persians. Things however developed which brought the Muslims to Persia. At the time of the battle of Jalula some Muslim forces from Basra undertook military operations in the neighboring Persian province of Khuzestan to cut of the supply line of the Persians that served the Persian army at Jalula. After the battle of Jalula the Muslim forces already in Khuzestan advanced further inland in Persia to fall to the Muslim. Manadhar and Sus were the next to fall. After Sus there was conformation at Ramharz where the Persians were defeated and the city fell to the Muslims. After Ramharz the cities of Shuster and Jandi Saur fell to the Muslim and that completed the conquest of the province of Khuzestan.
    The fall of Khuzestan alarmed the Persian and they mobilized all the resources at their disposal in another bid to stem the tide of the advancing Muslims. A large Persian army was accordingly assembled at Nihawand to give battle to the Muslims. The battle of Nihawand fought in 641 C.E, was a bloody battle when in spite of the Stiff resistance put in by the Persian the Muslim won the battle. The battle of Nihawand scaled the fate of Persia. As the Muslim penetrated further into the heart of Persia. There was another confrontation at Ray. The Persia suffered a heavy defeated. After the battle of Ray there was complete paralysis in the government of Persia Yazdjurd the emperor of Persia was forced to run from pillar to post and post to pillar. After the fall of Ray the Muslim forces spread in all directions in Persia. Azerbaijan and Tabarisatn fell in 634 C.E campaigns were there after undertaken in Armenia which was occupied by the Muslim other Muslim columns occupied Fars and Seestan. Eastward the Muslims advanced to what in now Baluchistan and occupied Mehran. By 659 C.E the Muslims reached Khurasan and occupied Mery. The Persian emperor Yazdjurd fled beyong the Onus and asked for help from Khaqan of Turkistan with the help thus obtained Yazdjurd made another attempts to recover his lost dominions. The attempt failed to Sassanid king was murdered by a miller in 651 C.E near the river Murgab with the death of Yazdjur all Muslims became the masters of the whole of Persia.