Babak Khorramdin

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Statue of Babak Khorramdin in the city of Babək in the rayon of the same name in Nakhchivan .

Babak Khorramdin ( Persian بابک خرمدین, DMG Bābak-e Ḫorramdīn , * 798 in the province of Ardabil ; † January 4, 838 ) is the name of a Persian and Zoroastrian national hero from Azerbaijan (hist. Âdhurpâdegân ) who, during the Abbasid epoch , was the leader of the Churramite sect (also Khorramdīnān , lit. "[belonging to] good faith] “) Who fought against the Muslim caliphate .

Bābak (originally Pāpak ) is the Middle Persian word for little father (cf. Papa ) and was probably not his real name. The Khorramdīnān movement , based on the Mazdak religion , came into being after the murder of Abu Muslim of Khorasan by the Abbasid caliphs. In 816 Bābak rose against the Arab caliphate in northwest Persia and was soon able to bring large areas in the west, as far as Isfahan , under his control. Several campaigns by the generals al-Mamun could be repulsed. It was not until 835 that the Abbasid general Afschin succeeded in pushing back Babak Khorramdin from large areas of western Iran with the help of Turkish militias; previously the officer Naṣr had defected with his troops to the Byzantines . With the conquest of the fortress al-Badd in 837, the uprising was suppressed. Babak Khorramdin managed to escape to Armenia , but was betrayed to Abbasid troops there and executed under torture on January 4, 838.

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  1. ↑ Mark Whittow: The Making of Byzantium: 600-1025. (PDF) University of California Press, Berkley 1996, pp. 195, 203, 215: “ … Azerbaijan was the scene of frequent anti-caliphal and anti-Arab revolts during the eighth and ninth centuries, and Byzantine sources talk of Persian warriors seeking refuge in the 830s from the caliph's armies by taking service under the Byzantine emperor Theophilos. [...] Azerbaijan had a Persian population and was a traditional center of the Zoroastrian religion. [...] The Khurramites were a [...] Persian sect, influenced by Shiite doctrines, but with their roots in a pre-Islamic Persian religious movement ... "
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SURNAME Babak Khorramdin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bābak Khorramdin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Azerbaijani leader of the Khorramiyân Movement
DATE OF BIRTH 798
PLACE OF BIRTH Ardebil
DATE OF DEATH January 4, 838