Muslim Arab's Motivations in Immigrating to Persia and the Consequences (The Time of Conquest of Persia)

Immigration of Arab tribes to Persia in Islamic era was concurrent with conquest of this country which led to a new chapter in history, culture and civilization Persia. The main question of the present paper is the motivations of Arabs in immigrating to Persia and also the consequences of immigration,mixture and marriage between Arabs and Persian people.The present papers will analyze different motivations of Arab in immigrating to Persia and the main reason is religious motivations in the time of Caliphates and Umayyad era. Jihad and preaching Islam were the main motivations of Muslims and the origins of such motivations were in Quran and Sunnah. Also they had military and political motivation in conquering Persia in order to continue their conquests and overcome their economic and social problems. Therefore military forces, their commanders and their families and tribes were the first immigrants in Persia. Mentally,financial motivations and taking war booties should be prior to the other motivations. The mentioned motivation became the main reason in conquering the east of Persia while jihad and preaching Islam became less important. Many of Shia Muslims, Sayyeds, Alavian, Kharijites and government oppositions and those who were attributed to them immigrated to Persia to save their lives and their property. Welfare motivations were subsequent to financial motivations which were a different kind. After settlement in Persia, getting accustomed to their lifestyle and their mixture with native people, welfare motivations came up in minds.