A Literary History of Persia
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The next great heresiarch, however, appeared in the reign of al-Ma'miin.
This was Bibak, called al-Khurraml, who is first mentioned by Tabari under the year a.h. 201 ('a.d. 816-817), ^'^^ '*''^^° ^°'' more than twenty years (till a.d. 838) was the terror of Western and North- Western Persia, defeating in turn Yahya b. Ma'adh, 'Isa b. Muhammad, Muhammad b. Humayd of Tus, and other generals sent against him, and was only at last con- quered and captured with much difficulty, through cunning strat...agems, by the celebrated Afshm. Of these wars full accounts are given by all the principal Muhammadan historians, especially Tabari ; 3 but of Babak's private life, character and " Cf. what is said on p. 309 supra as to the expected return of Bih-afaridh.
' See Haarbrucker's translation, p. 200 ; Cureton's text, p. 132 ; Schefer's Chrestomathie Persane, vol i, p. 177 ; the Nidhamu'l-Mulk's Siydsat- ndma (ed. Schefer), p. 199.
3 See particularly Tabari, iii, pp. 1015, 1039, 1044, 1045, 1099, iioi, 1165, 1170-1179, 1186-1235, and, for Afshin's fall and death, 1308-1314 ; Dinawari, PP- 397-401 ; Baladhuri, pp.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The next great heresiarch, however, appeared in the reign of al-Ma'miin.
This was Bibak, called al-Khurraml, who is first mentioned by Tabari under the year a.h. 201 ('a.d. 816-817), ^'^^ '*''^^° ^°'' more than twenty years (till a.d. 838) was the terror of Western and North- Western Persia, defeating in turn Yahya b. Ma'adh, 'Isa b. Muhammad, Muhammad b. Humayd of Tus, and other generals sent against him, and was only at last con- quered and captured with much difficulty, through cunning strat...agems, by the celebrated Afshm. Of these wars full accounts are given by all the principal Muhammadan historians, especially Tabari ; 3 but of Babak's private life, character and " Cf. what is said on p. 309 supra as to the expected return of Bih-afaridh.
' See Haarbrucker's translation, p. 200 ; Cureton's text, p. 132 ; Schefer's Chrestomathie Persane, vol i, p. 177 ; the Nidhamu'l-Mulk's Siydsat- ndma (ed. Schefer), p. 199.
3 See particularly Tabari, iii, pp. 1015, 1039, 1044, 1045, 1099, iioi, 1165, 1170-1179, 1186-1235, and, for Afshin's fall and death, 1308-1314 ; Dinawari, PP- 397-401 ; Baladhuri, pp.
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