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Khurramites, the Glossary

The Khurramites (خرمدینان Khurram-Dīnân, meaning "those of the Joyful Religion") were an IranianW.^[1]

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9th century in Iran
Anti-Islam sentiment in Iran
Iranian religions
Opposition to Arab nationalism
Rebellions against the Abbasid Caliphate

Abbasid Caliphate

The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (translit) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.

Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı

Abdülbaki Gölpınarlı (1900—1982) was a Turkish literary historian of Azerbaijani descent, known for his works on Sufism, Divan literature and Iranian literature.

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Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khurasani (أبو مسلمعبد الرحمن بن مسلمالخراساني; ابومسلمعبدالرحمان بن مسلمخراسانی; born 718/19 or 723/27, died 755) was a Persian general who led the Abbasid Revolution that toppled the Umayyad dynasty, leading to the establishment of the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Al-Fadl ibn Sahl

Abu l-Abbas al-Fadl ibn Sahl ibn Zadhanfarukh al-Sarakhsi (Abu’l-ʿAbbās al-Faḍl ibn Sahl ibn Zādānfarrūkh as-Sarakhsī; died 818), titled Dhu 'l-Ri'āsatayn ("the man of the two headships"), was a famous Persian vizier of the Abbasid era in Khurasan, who served under Caliph al-Ma'mun (r.

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Al-Ma'mun

Abu al-Abbas Abd Allah ibn Harun al-Rashid (Abū al-ʿAbbās ʿAbd Allāh ibn Hārūn ar-Rashīd; 14 September 786 – 9 August 833), better known by his regnal name al-Ma'mun (al-Maʾmūn), was the seventh Abbasid caliph, who reigned from 813 until his death in 833.

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Al-Maqdisi

Shams al-Din Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Abi Bakr (translit; 991), commonly known by the nisba al-Maqdisi (translit) or al-Muqaddasī (ٱلْمُقَدَّسِي) was a medieval Palestinian Arab geographer, author of Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm (The Best Divisions in the Knowledge of the Regions), as well as author of the book, Description of Syria (Including Palestine).

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Al-Mu'tasim

Abū Isḥāq Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd (أبو إسحاق محمد بن هارون الرشيد; October 796 – 5 January 842), better known by his regnal name al-Muʿtaṣim biʾllāh (المعتصمبالله), was the eighth Abbasid caliph, ruling from 833 until his death in 842.

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Al-Muqanna

Al-Muqanna (المقنع "The Veiled", died c. 783) born Hashim, (Arabic/Persian: هاشم), was an 8th-century political and military leader who operated in modern Iran.

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Al-Tabari

Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr ibn Yazīd al-Ṭabarī (أَبُو جَعْفَر مُحَمَّد بْن جَرِير بْن يَزِيد ٱلطَّبَرِيّ; 839–923 CE / 224–310 AH), commonly known as al-Ṭabarī (ٱلطَّبَرِيّ), was a Sunni Muslim scholar, polymath, traditionalist, historian, exegete, jurist, and theologian from Amol, Tabaristan, present-day Iran.

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Ali

Ali ibn Abi Talib (translit) was the cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, and was the fourth Rashidun caliph who ruled from 656 to 661, as well as the first Shia imam.

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Aras (river)

The Aras (also known as the Araks, Arax, Araxes, or Araz) is a river in the Caucasus.

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Ardabil

Ardabil (اردبیل.) is a city in northwestern Iran.

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Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and West Asia.

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Azerbaijan (Iran)

Azerbaijan or Azarbaijan (italic), also known as Iranian Azerbaijan, is a historical region in northwestern Iran that borders Iraq and Turkey to the west, and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Armenia, and the Republic of Azerbaijan proper to the north.

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Babak Fort

Pāpak Fort (بابک قالاسی: ترکی آذربایجانی) or Babak CastleBurke, Andrew and Elliott.

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Babak Khorramdin

Bābak Khorramdin (Bābak-e Khorramdin, from, Pāpak/Pābag; 795 or 798 – January 838) was one of the main Iranian revolutionary leaders of the Iranian Khorram-Dinān ("Those of the joyous religion"), which was a local freedom movement fighting the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Bahram Chobin

Bahrām Chōbīn (بهرامچوبین) or Wahrām Chōbēn (Middle Persian: 𐭥𐭫𐭧𐭫𐭠𐭭), also known by his epithet Mehrbandak ("servant of Mithra"), was a nobleman, general, and political leader of the late Sasanian Empire and briefly its ruler as Bahram VI (r. 590–591).

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Bugha al-Kabir

Bugha al-Kabir, also known as Bugha al-Turki, was a 9th-century Khazar general who served the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Byzantium

Byzantium or Byzantion (Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Thracian settlement and later a Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople in late antiquity and which is known as Istanbul today.

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Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake and sometimes referred to as a full-fledged sea.

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Dualism in cosmology

Dualism in cosmology or dualistic cosmology is the moral or spiritual belief that two fundamental concepts exist, which often oppose each other.

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Encyclopaedia of Islam

The Encyclopaedia of Islam (EI) is a reference work that facilitates the academic study of Islam.

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Fourth Fitna

The Fourth Fitna or Great Abbasid Civil War resulted from the conflict between the brothers al-Amin and al-Ma'mun over the succession to the throne of the Abbasid Caliphate. Their father, Caliph Harun al-Rashid, had named al-Amin as the first successor, but had also named al-Ma'mun as the second, with Khurasan granted to him as an appanage. Khurramites and Fourth Fitna are 9th century in Iran.

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Free love

Free love is a social movement that accepts all forms of love.

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Hamadan

Hamedan (همدان) is a city in western Iran.

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Ibn al-Athir

Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī ibn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad ash-Shaybānī, better known as ʿAlī ʿIzz ad-Dīn Ibn al-Athīr al-Jazarī (علي عز الدین بن الاثیر الجزري; 1160–1233) was a Hadith expert, historian, and biographer who wrote in Arabic and was from the Ibn Athir family.

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Iranian peoples

The Iranian peoples or Iranic peoples are a diverse grouping of peoples who are identified by their usage of the Iranian languages (branch of the Indo-European languages) and other cultural similarities.

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Isfahan

Isfahan or Esfahan (اصفهان) is a major city in the Central District of Isfahan County, Isfahan province, Iran.

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Javidhan

Javidhan was an Iranian landlord and leader of one of the two Khurramite movements in Azerbaijan, with his headquarters being in Badhdh.

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Kaysanites

The Kaysanites were a Shi'i sect of Islam that formed from the followers of Al-Mukhtar.

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Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin

Ḥaydar ibn Kāwūs (حيدر بن كاوس, Kheyzar ebn-e Kāvus), better known by his hereditary title of al-Afshīn (الأفشين, Afshin), was a senior general of Sogdian Iranian descent at the court of the Abbasid caliphs and a vassal prince of Oshrusana.

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List of extinct Shia sects

The following is a list of extinct unorthodox movements within Shia Islam.

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Mazdak

Mazdak (مزدک, Middle Persian: 𐭬𐭦𐭣𐭪, also Mazdak the Younger; died c. 524 or 528) was an Iranian Zoroastrian mobad (priest) and religious reformer who gained influence during the reign of the Sasanian emperor Kavadh I. He claimed to be a prophet of Ahura Mazda and instituted social welfare programs.

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Mazdakism

Mazdakism (Persian: مزدکیه) was an Iranian religion, which was an offshoot of Zoroastrianism. Khurramites and Mazdakism are Iranian religions.

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Messiah

In Abrahamic religions, a messiah or messias is a saviour or liberator of a group of people.

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Metempsychosis

In philosophy, metempsychosis (μετεμψύχωσις) is the transmigration of the soul, especially its reincarnation after death.

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Muhammad

Muhammad (570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam.

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Muslim conquest of Persia

The Muslim conquest of Persia, also called the Muslim conquest of Iran, the Arab conquest of Persia, or the Arab conquest of Iran, was a major military campaign undertaken by the Rashidun Caliphate between 632 and 654.

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Osrushana

Osrušana (اسروشنه) or Ustrushana was a former Iranian regionC.

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Persians

The Persians--> are an Iranian ethnic group who comprise over half of the population of Iran.

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Qarmatians

The Qarmatians (Qarāmiṭa) were a militant Isma'ili Shia movement centred in al-Hasa in Eastern Arabia, where they established a religious—and, as some scholars have claimed, proto-socialist or utopian socialist—state in 899 CE.

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Qizilbash

Qizilbash or Kizilbashitalic (Latin script: qızılbaş); قزيل باش; qizilbāš (modern Iranian reading: qezelbāš); lit were a diverse array of mainly Turkoman "The Qizilbash, composed mainly of Turkman tribesmen, were the military force introduced by the conquering Safavis to the Iranian domains in the sixteenth century." Shia militant groups that flourished in Azerbaijan, Anatolia, the Armenian highlands, the Caucasus, and Kurdistan from the late 15th century onwards, and contributed to the foundation of the Safavid and Afsharid empires in early modern Iran.

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Reincarnation

Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.

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Safavid dynasty

The Safavid dynasty (Dudmâne Safavi) was one of Iran's most significant ruling dynasties reigning from 1501 to 1736.

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Sahl Smbatean

Sahl Smbatean EṙanshahikMovses Kaghankatvatsi.

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Shia Islam

Shia Islam is the second-largest branch of Islam.

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Sunpadh

Sunpadh (سندپاد; also spelled Sunpad and Sunbadh) was an Iranian nobleman from the House of Karen, who incited an uprising against the Abbasid Caliphate in the 8th century.

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Theophilos (emperor)

Theophilos (Theóphilos; Theophilus, c. 812 20 January 842) was the Byzantine Emperor from 829 until his death in 842.

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Theophobos

Theophobos (Θεόφοβος) or Theophobus, originally Nasir (ناصر), Nasr (نصر), or Nusayr (نصیر), was a commander of the Khurramites who converted to Christianity and entered Byzantine service under Emperor Theophilos.

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Yahya ibn Mu'adh ibn Muslim

Yahya ibn Mu'adh ibn Muslim was a senior official and governor for the Abbasid Caliphate.

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Zoroastrianism

Zoroastrianism (Din-e Zartoshti), also known as Mazdayasna and Behdin, is an Iranian religion. Khurramites and Zoroastrianism are Iranian religions.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khurramites

Also known as Babak Uprising, Khoram din, Khoramdin, Khorram-Dinan, Khorram-din, Khorramdin, Khorramites, Khuram din, Khurram-din, Khurram-diniyya, Khurramdin, Khurramdīn, Khurramite, Khurramite Revolt, Khurramiyya, Khurramiyyah, Muḥammirah, Red-Wearing Ones.

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Khurramites, the Glossary

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9th century in Iran

Anti-Islam sentiment in Iran

Iranian religions

Opposition to Arab nationalism

Rebellions against the Abbasid Caliphate

References