Anra Mainyu tries by all means to destroy, to annihilate the work of Ahura Mazdao, and there, in the bottom of the cold and gloomy north, stands the … - Italo Pizzi

If not even the Arabs, the Muslims all, of whatever nation they were, had the pride in the Middle Ages of finesse and splendor in life, of skill sought in everything that touches pomp and luxury, from the fantastically crafted palaces to the most delicate essences and scents, of all costs they owe to the Persians from whom they took it and appropriated Even the science that came to us from Asia in the Middle Ages, in great part was Persian; and Persians are almost all philosophers, doctors, astronomers, mathematicians, whose names we read in the pages of our middle age, such as Agazel and Alrasi, Albatenio, Avicenna, Alfarabi. They wrote their works in Arabic, this being the learned language of the Muslim empire; and we therefore, with manifest error, called them Arabs and yet we consider them to be so.

We, long bred in the ideas of classical culture, because we know that the Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon, at Thermopylae, at Salamis, we also aged ourselves to consider these people as a bunch of cowards taken to the slaughter by the ambition of a tyrant, while it is also known that they, in those battles, fought as va Herodotus himself makes it, with praise, beautiful and open testimony, nor, bear in mind that, they were all Persians or Iranians the soldiers that Darius and Xerxes were then with them; he was, on the other hand, an infinite bevy, ill-ordered, of distant and very different people. Alexander, it is true, took the kingdom from Dario Codomanno, but and Darius and his people, while yielding, yielded as valiant; and the Arabs who in the seventh century of our Era invaded Iran and destroyed the ancient empire in 650, certainly did not enter without a blow injuring the rich and glorious country, even if the kingdom was torn.

With Yezdeghird the series of Persian monarchs closes, and the conquest of the Arabs marks the entering Iran of a new faith, a new law and new rulers.