What Was The Iranian Intermezzo?
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The swift conquest of the Sasanian Empire in its entirety by the Islamic Caliphs destroyed Iran politically. But Persian culture survived both the Rashidun and Umayyad caliphates, and eventually pervaded into the culture of the Muslim Abbasid Caliphs. Then in the backdrop of the Abbasid’s decline in the 9th century, a number of Muslim Iranian dynasties asserted their authority in Iraq, Persia, Khurasan, and Transoxiana. This period would come to be known as the Iranian Intermezzo, or Persian Renaissance. Despite being under the suzerainty of the Abbasids, these states had de facto independence, which they used to revive Iranian national spirit. The Intermezzo served as an expression of rebellion against the cultural and political domination of Arabs over Iranians. This extended to the religious sphere, as some of the Intermezzo states were Shia. The Buyids of Iran & Iraq symbolized this - they were Twelver Shia’s who proudly highlighted their links to pre-Islamic Persia. Buyid rulers c
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