Chapter 1: In the Name of Allah ................................................................................ 4
Chapter 2: The Change of Command ...................................................................... 17
Chapter 3: The Victories and Defeat of Abu Ubayd ............................................. 23
Chapter 4: The Battle ofBuweib .......................................................................... , .... 40
Chapter 5: Umar and Sa'd .......................................................................................... 51
Chapter 6: Yazdjurd and Rustam .............................................................................. 65
Chapter 7: The Eve ofQadisiyya .............................................................................. 80
Chapter 8: The Day of Disorder ............................................................................. 104
Chapter 9: The Day of Succour ............................................................................... 115
Chapter 10: The Day of Hardship .......................................................................... 128
Chapter 11: The Night of Qadisiyya ....................................................................... 138
Chapter 12: On to Ctesiphon .................................................................................. 151
Chapter 13: The Conquest of Ctesiphon ............................................................... 163
Chapter 14: The Battle of J alaula ............................................................................ 17 6
Chapter 15: The Consolidation of Iraq .................................................................. 196
Chapter 16: The Conquest of Ahwaz ..................................................................... 207
Chapter 17: The Conquest ofTustar ...................................................................... 220
Chapter 18: The Rest ofKhuzistan ........................................................................ 230
Chapter 19: The Persians March Again ....................... : ......................................... 239
Chapter 20: The Battle of Nihawand ..................................................................... 250
Chapter 21: The Fall ofPersia ................................................................................. 273
Chapter 22: The Last of the Sasanis ....................................................................... 284
APPENDIX A: BIBLIOGRAPHY ....................................................................... 298
APPENDIX B: THE HIJRI AND CHRISTIAN YEARS ... _. ........................... 301
APPENDIX C: NOTES ............................................................. 302
APPENDIX D: THE COMP ANIONS ............................................................... 309
LIST OF MAPS
Map 1: The Early Campaigns .................................................................................... 10
Map 2: The Movements of Abu Ubayd ................................................................... 28
Map 3: The Approach to Qadisiyya .......................................................................... 61
Map 4: The Plain of Qadisiyya .................................................................................. 79
Map 5: Qadisiyya Dispositions ................................................................................ 101
Map 6: Qadisiyya lsi: Day .......................................................................................... 111
Map 7: Qadisiyya 2nd Day ....................................................................................... 122
Map 8: Qadisiyya 3rd Day ........................................................................................ 132
Map 9: Qadisiyya 4th Day ........................................................................................ 144
Map 10: The Advance to Ctesiphon ....................................................................... 157
Map 11: The Battle of J alaula 1 ............................................................................... 180
Map 12: The Battle of J alaula 2 ··································································186
Map 13: I<huzistan and Fars .................................................................................... 213
Map 14: The March to Nihawand ........................................................................... 247
Map 15: The Battlefield ofNihawand .................................................................... 251
Map 16: The Battle ofNihawand 1 ........................................................................ 252
Map 17: The Battle ofNihawand 2 ........................................................................ 255
Map 18: The Battle of Nihawand 3 ........................................................................ 260
Map 19: The Battle of Nihawand 4 ........................................................................ 262
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