Calling Iranians to Islam from the first Muslim’s invasion To the Kadisīyyah Battle

Subject Areas : The Journal of Islamic History and Civilisation

آذر آهنچی ¹ (ندارد)

Received: 2010-06-26 Accepted : 2010-08-27 Published : 2010-08-23

Keywords: Islamic Conquests, the conquest of Iran, dacwa, Rustam-e-&#x0D, &#x0D, Farukhzad,

Abstract :

Calling followers of other religions to Islam (dacwa) has mostly beenaccompanied by one of these three alternatives: to accept Islam, to payJizya, or to enter into a war. Proposing to accept Islam upon toIranians is reported by various sources. The content of these reportsare of two distinctive aspects: the formal and objective aspect of theevents, the religious spiritual aspect associated with approaches andinsights of the reporters. Different reports of the same event andcontradictory ideas in these reports raise some questions: Were theMuslims able to invite the Sassanids forces to accept Islam before anywar? What kind of options may have come up regarding the threealternatives? And why the main sources have considered “dacwa” as amain issue? What is the reason for the differences between the reports,and what are the motivations of the contradictory ideas? The presentarticle investigates “dacwa” of Iranians or more precisely of theSassanids to Islam with the purpose of revealing the difficulties ofhistorical reports.