Babak Khorramdin

Babak Khorramdin (795/8–838) was an Iranian revolutionary leader of the Khurramites—a local freedom movement in Azerbaijan fighting the Abbasid Caliphate. Quotes thumb|Perhaps I shall survive, perhaps not... Wherever I am present or am mentioned, I am the king. Perhaps I shall survive, perhaps not. I have been known as the commander. Wherever I am present or am mentioned, I am the king. Babak Khorramdin's letter to his son, rejecting the caliph’s amnesty message, quoted by Al-Tabari, cited in "BĀBAK ḴORRAMI" at Encyclopaedia Iranica [...] It is better to live for just a single day as a ruler than to live for forty years as an abject slave. Babak Khorramdin's letter to his son, rejecting the caliph’s amnesty message, quoted by Al-Tabari, edited by C. E. Bosworth, History of al-Tabari Vol. 33, The: Storm and Stress along the Northern Frontiers of the 'Abbasid Caliphate: The Caliphate of al-Mu'tasim A.D. 833-842/A.H. 218-227 External links Category:8th century births Category:830s deaths Category:Revolutionaries Category:Political leaders Category:People from Persia Category:Executed people