Bahram of Persia

Prince Bahram ( Pahlavi : Wahrām / Warahrān from Avestian : Verethragna , Persian : بهرام, Chinese : Alouhan; † 710 ), son of the Sassanid great king Yazdegerd III who was murdered in 651 AD . and brother Peroz 'III. He left Persia after the Arab invasion and the fall of the Sassanid Empire and moved with part of the Iranian nobility to China , where he and his brother asked the Chinese Emperor Gaozong (ruled 649–683) for support in the fight against the Arabs. He tried repeatedly to recapture the Persian territories held by the Arab occupation forces, but did not succeed.

In Middle Persian literature, the poem Abar Madan i Wahrām i Warjāwand ("On the coming of Bahram who has wonderful power") is dedicated to him, in which, in addition to the people's hope for the liberation of Iran by Prince Bahram and the contempt for the Islamic Belief expresses the bitterness of the occupation policy. Among other things, it reads: "When will a messenger come from India / (To say) that King Vahrām of the tribe of the Cianids arrived? / ... / What we saw (suffered) through the hand of the Arabs (:) / With of a troop they weakened the religion and killed the kings / Our King among those Iranians / Their religion is in the manner of demons. "

Prince Bahram's son, Prince Chosrau (Chinese: Juluo ), continued his father's military efforts. However, his campaign and his initially successful advance on Persia were also unsuccessful.

literature

• Touraj Daryaee: Sasanian Iran . Mazda Publishers, California, 2008, ISBN 1568591691 , pp. 91-104.
• DN MacKenzie: A Concise Pahlavi Dictionary . Routledge Curzon, ISBN 0197135595 , 2005.