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Map 7: The sphere of contact in the Near East between Iran and the Arabs in pre-Islamic<br />

and early Islamic times<br />

expansion into south-west Arabia – where the Yemen became a Sasanian<br />

vassal state until the rise of Islam 187 – and their intervention in Roman–<br />

Turkic diplomatic relations had caused the third great Byzantine–Persian<br />

War, 188 as pretexts and he claims that the West was simply eager for war.<br />

Arabia became a theatre of war in the course of the sixth century<br />

(map 7). Towards the end of the reign of Xusrō I the Sasanians expanded<br />

187 Harmatta 1974.<br />

188 Turtledove 1983: 292–301.

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