06031. THE ISLAMIC CONQUEST OF IRAN. An erudite paper dealing with the Tynbean analysis of historical change and its applicability to the rise of Islam and the collapse of the Persian Empire. The paper concludes that the Toynbean thesis is misguided in the view of Islam which it presents and therefore that the entire thesis should be regarded with circumspection. 22 pages, 22 footnotes, 7 bibliographic sources.