Originally Posted by therebbe

Really? Can your provide an example of Persian - Arab fighting? I have not heard of many accounts of this other than possibly modern day Iraq and Iran.

Hallo,

These are some of event in preislamic era the concuquest of Sassanids Persia(637-651),but there were more battles after splitting of sunni and shi'a especially under the Sunni Arab Umayyad caliphate.The Umayyids rose from traditional Arab aristocracy. They tended to marry other Arabs, creating an ethnic stratification that discriminated against Persians,then lead to hatred amongs them(Arab-Persian).

Battle of al-Qādisiyyah 636bc
Battle of Nihawānd 642bc
Battle of the Bridge 634bc

Originally Posted by starfortress

Hallo,

These are some of event in preislamic era the concuquest of Sassanids Persia(637-651),but there were more battles after splitting of sunni and shi'a especially under the Sunni Arab Umayyad caliphate.The Umayyids rose from traditional Arab aristocracy. They tended to marry other Arabs, creating an ethnic stratification that discriminated against Persians,then lead to hatred amongs them(Arab-Persian).

Battle of al-Qādisiyyah 636bc
Battle of Nihawānd 642bc
Battle of the Bridge 634bc

Hmmm. Interesting.