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
Khaydhar ibn Kawus al-Afshin
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Ḥaydar ibn Kāwūs, better known by his hereditary title of al-Afshīn, was a senior general of Sogdian descent at the court of the Abbasid caliphs and a vassal prince of Oshrusana. He played a leading r
Babak Khorramdin
…and the Aras river bank, westward to the districts of Jolfa, Nakjavan, and Marand". In 835–836 the caliph al-Mu'tasim sent his outstanding general Afshin against Babak. Afshin rebuilt fortresses. He employed a relay system to protect supply caravans. Babak tried to capture the money being sent to pay…
Afshin, upon the camel, parades 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
Babak parleys with Afshin Haydar, the Caliph al-Mu'tasim's general
Miniature from the Madrid Skylitzes manuscript depicting the Arab siege of Amorium