An interview with Robert G. Hoyland, Professor of Late Antiquity and Early Islamic Middle Eastern History at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World. He is the author of "In God's Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire," published by Oxford University Press in 2014, and translator and editor of "The 'History of the Kings of the Persians' in Three Arabic Chronicles: The Transmission of the Iranian Past from Late Antiquity to Early Islam," published by Liverpool University Press in 2018.