Talk:Babak Khorramdin

Javidan Shahrak?

In the article the name of Babak's lord "Javidan" appears as "Javidan Shahrak", this wrongly makes "Shahrak" his last name. This article is poorly written, I dare to suggest that the name should be changed to "Javidan ibn Shahrak", "Javidan son of Shahrak" Shahrak was the master of "Baz" or "Boz" highlands and was Javidan's father. Source: "بابک خرمدین" سعید نفیسی page 16

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Khurramites = Mazdakism/Zoroastrianism

It's not even remotely disputed in WP:RS. Here are just a few examples:

1. "...the name Ḵorramdīn appears to confirm the assertion in several sources that the sect was an offshoot of Mazdakism (Masʿūdī, Tanbīh, p. 322; Fehrest, pp. 405-06; Sīāsat-nāma, p. 319; Mojmal, pp. 353-54; Abu’l-Maʿālī, chap. 5, p. 300; see also Sadighi, pp. 187f., 197; Yarshater, pp. 1003-04; and Nafīsī, p. 21). Many modern scholars regard them as “neo-Mazdakites” (e.g., Madelung, p. 64; Amoretti, p. 503; Yarshater, p. 1011; Zarrīnkūb, 1343 Š./1964, p. 544)" - Iranica, Yusofi
2. "Secondarily, the rebellion’s religious nature and its closeness to the Mazdakism makes it an ideological threat to Islam and its authority.52 The anti-Arab and anti-Islamic aspects of the rebellion also give it an Iranian, proto-nationalist nature, something that is mentioned in the primary sources and has been taken as forgranted in the modern characterization of his movement." - page 66, The Rebellion of Babak and the Historiography of the Southern Caucasus, Khodadad Rezakhani
3. "..most serious of all these revolutionary movements, the Neo-Mazdakite Khurramiyya sectaries, under their leader Babak, controlled Arran and Azarbaijan and were threatening Jibal." - page 96, Cambridge History of Iran, volume 4
4. "adherents of a form of Iranian religion often identified as a survival or revival of the Zoroastrian heresy, Mazdakism." Iranica, Patricia Crone
5. "The Persian term khurramdin (“joyful religion”), by which Babak and his followers were known, is reminiscent of bihdin (“good religion”), another appellation for Zoroastrianism. Thus, Khurramdin was used at times by opponents both to brand the movement as licentious and to link it with Mazdakism, which was in turn considered too ethically lenient." - p. 147, Continuity in Iranian Identity: Resilience of a Cultural Heritage, Fereshteh Davaran

HistoryofIran (talk) 01:10, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Other sources describe them as a mix of islam and zoroastrianism:

https://www.thecollector.com/ancient-iran-mazdak-khurramites-communism/

Even in this link you gave aspects of islam were used like the belief of the mehdi and of Ali and Muhammed:

https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/korramis Barbardo (talk) 01:18, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Fail to see how first link is WP:RS - see also WP:RSSELF. Aspects of Islam =/= Islamic sect as you tried to add, the source still says that it's an "Iranian religion often identified as a survival or revival of the Zoroastrian heresy, Mazdakism." --HistoryofIran (talk) 01:32, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

1. "However, modern scholarship has generally corroborated the medieval Muslim authors' identification of the Khurramiyya of early Islamic times with the neo-Mazdakites - these were the remnants of the earlier Mazdakiyya who had supported the socio-religious revolutionary movement of Mazdak for reforming Zoroastrianism in Sasanian Iran during the reign of Kavad (488-531)." - page 47, History of Civilizations of Central Asia, Volume 4, UNESCO --HistoryofIran (talk) 01:50, 2 October 2023 (UTC)

Incest

It’s funny how you can tell an iranian worshipper touched it, the usage of “Iranian” rather than “Persian” to erase the diversity and complexity of the region… the literally made up “oppression”? Also, conveniently forgetting to mention what the man actually practiced, like practicing the incest (which is considered the highest level of human relationship, according to Zoroastrian…) we need you guys to be more biased, only because it’s getting pathetic. 2001:16A4:C7:1CA7:5FE:23D8:B:3980 (talk) 06:18, 29 October 2025 (UTC)

Not to mention the insanely funny melodramatic language “Arab warlords” and using “Azdi” instead of “Al-Azdi” this is what iranians do because yk… they adapted Arabic alphabet AND almost 40% of their language is Arabic, but they can’t pronounce this “Al”. I pity them. 2001:16A4:C7:1CA7:5FE:23D8:B:3980 (talk) 06:21, 29 October 2025 (UTC)