affairs and whom peasants were obliged to obey.

Following the suppression of the Mazdakite uprising, Khosrau I implemented social reforms which benefited the dehqans. Under the reign of Khosrau, who followed the same policies as his father, the dehqans gained influence as the backbone of the Sasanian army and as imperial tax collectors, eventually replacing the nobility as the base for the army under Khosrau's reforms. As their