Babak Khorramdin
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Bābak Khorramdin was one of the main Iranian revolutionary leaders of the Iranian Khorram-Dinān, which was a local freedom movement fighting the Abbasid Caliphate. Khorramdin appears to be a compound
Babak upon the elephant, into Samarra. Persian miniature created in 16th-century Safavid Iran, from a copy of Abu Ali Bal'ami's 10th-century Tarikhnama.
View of the landscape from the castle.
Babak Castle
Babak Castle
Abu Muslim
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Abu Muslim was a Persian revolutionary and military commander who was a central figure in the Abbasid Revolution that brought down the Umayyad Caliphate and established the Abbasid Caliphate.
Babak Khorramdin
…history in the late 9th century, states that there is ample evidence to support that his father's true name was Mutahhar and that he was a descendant of Abu Muslim, the Persian leader of the Abbasid revolution, through his daughter, Fatima. C. E. Bosworth argues that more credence should be lent to this latter…
Portrait of Abu Muslim (d. 755) from the genealogy (silsilanāma) "Cream of Histories" (Zübdet-üt Tevarih, 1598)
Abbasid silver dirham in the name of Abu Muslim struck at Merv in AH 132 (749–50)
"Abu Muslim chastises a man for telling tales," Folio from the Ethics of Nasir (Akhlaq-i Nasiri) by Nasir al-Din Tusi. Copy created in Lahore between 1590 and 1595