@article{article_674180, title={A SURVEY OF IRAN’S SOCIAL STRUCTURE IN THE TRANSITION FROM THE SASSANID TO THE EARLY ISLAMIC ERA FROM THE MANUSCRIPT AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE}, journal={Cedrus}, volume={4}, pages={341–352}, year={2016}, DOI={10.13113/CEDRUS/201620}, author={Aarab, Ali}, keywords={Sosyal Yapı • Sasani Dönemi • Erken İslam Dönemi • Tarihsel Yazmalar • Arkeolojik Buluntular}, abstract={Iran’s social structure in the transition period from Sassanid rule to early Islam is of great importance. The social structure of the Sassanid period was of a hier­archical kind that placed too many social and econom­ic burdens on society’s lower classes. This paper ex­amines through the use of historical texts the role of the Sassanid social structure and its pressure on the process of conversion to Islam by Iranians. The related literature shows this was one of the main reasons that Iranians accepted Islam, due to the modification of the social structure by the Muslims of early Islam who exerted effort to this end and this case can be investi­gated through the use of historical manuscripts and ar­chae­ological finds. However, the modified conditions in the following period took a different form that brought about the formation of other social classes which includ­ed classes formed on the basis of race and re­li­gion. Nev­er­theless, the landowner class obtained much power dur­ing this period which increased the pres­sure upon the lower classes who were mostly farmers. Thus, in the era of early Islam the same pressure from the upper class remained over the farmers who were a class having a most significant population.}, publisher={Akdeniz Üniversitesi}