Umayyids - Iranian Arabs?

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Since these articles point out to a very critical period in Iranian and Arabic history and since they present a completely new and revolutionary theory about the Ummayids, I decided to begin the translation of them into English, even though my English is not enough fluent. I hope other Iranian members of AE who have better skills in translation continue this project in the coming days.  Here is the first half of the first part of the articles:

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"In the end, it is the historian who reconstructs the past, now the question to be answered is whether the historian does this task properly or improperly."

In the Azadegan website, the letter of the second Islamic Caliph, Omar, to Yazdgerd III, the last Sassanid king and also Yazdgerd's response to Omar's letter have been written. Undoubtedly, not Omar's letter to Yazdgerd nor Yazdgerd's letter to Omar are in existence. They are both imaginary and artificial, yet the website's author claims that they are kept in a museum in London.

Tabari, the Iranian historian (death in 922 AD) informs us about the Arab missionaries who had suggested converting to Islam to Yazdgerd by the order of Omar and also narrates the statements of Yazdgerd about the Arabs.  The Sassanid king, according to Tabari, reminds that Arabs are the most bothersome and obnoxious nation in the world (1). German Islamologist, Noth, has questioned the narrations on the meetings between Yazdgerd with two missionaries: "Undoubtedly no meetings have taken place between Yazdgerd and the Muslims." (2) No inscription nor any coin have ever been found from Omar, neither from the other 3 Caliphs (Abubakir, Ottoman and Ali). From the 7^th century AD (the century of Rashedin Caliphs' rule from 632 to 661 AD), no inscription or document is at avail and in order to get informed about the events of this century we should refer to coins and petrographs. Brandt, the German historian, points out about the importance of coins in study of the Classic history: "Because of the rarity of inscriptions from those times, coins are the most important and authentic documents for reconstruction of the Classic era. In the recent century, we have been able to gain new information from the ancient times by a regular and systematic analysis of the old coins." (3) Brandt adds that numismatology is divided into two sections: "The first section analyzes the coins as a historical document, intermingled with all of aspects of a society and for the second section coins are important solely in regard to the economical aspects (currency) of a society. The contemporary Islamologists so far haven't paid enough attention to the sciences of numismatology and archaeology in order to gain a better view of the Islam's history. 

The first (found) coin of the Arab Caliphs, belonging to Mu'awiyyah, dates back to 663 AD and has been coined in the Fars province (Darab). From Mu'awiyyah also there is a petrograph from 663 AD with a Cross sign on it in a bath of the ancient Greek city of Gadara (Umm Ghais in Arabic) in Jordan. Engraving of this sign of Christianity (the Cross) by Mu'awiyyah has been a source of shock and surprise among the Arab historians. Mu'awiyyah's petrograph has been written in Greek. Three dates have been specified the engraving time of this petrograph: Byzantine's fiscal year history, Gadara's local history and Arabic history (42^nd year of the Arabs). A point worth of notice is that Mu'awiyyah's petrograph has mentioned the "year of Arabs" not the "Islamic (Hijri) year". By comparison of these three dates, the exact year for the engraving of this document can be specified (663 AD). So, the first year of Arabs, in Mu'awiyyah's eyes, is 622 AD. In this year, the army of Khosro II (590-628 AD) was defeated by Byzantines and the Sassanid's rule over the Arabs ended.

Mu'awiyyah's petrograph with the Cross sign on it in Gadara (Umm Ghais)

In the day of ‘Abd Allah Muawiya ‘, the Commander of the faithful, the hot baths of the people  there were saved and rebuilt by  Abd Allah son of Abuasemos (Abū Hāšim) the Counsellor , on the fifth of the month of December , on the second day, in the 6th year of the indiction, in the year 726 of colony, according to the Arabs the 42nd year, for the healing of the  sick, under the care of Ioannes , the official of Gadara

( Israel Exploration Journal, Volume 32, 1982, Plate 11

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