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Why didn't the Persian Empire capture the Arabian Peninsula?

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The Arabian Peninsula was a vast land of nothing with a couple of barbarian Arab tribes and perhaps several merchant outposts. read more

Actually they did a lot of times. As you can see on the map of the Sassanid Empire, which was the second Persian Empire, it covered all of the Persian Gulf’s coastal areas, as well as most of modern day Oman and Yemen. read more

Fred McGraw Donner, however, suggests that formation of a state in the Arabian peninsula and ideological (i.e. religious) coherence and mobilization was a primary reason why the Muslim armies in the space of a hundred years were able to establish the largest pre-modern empire until that time. read more

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