Babek
Babak, also known as Babak Khorramdin, was a Persian military leader who directed the Khurramite movement against the Abbasid Caliphate in the early 9th century. The Khurramites were a regional, religious-political uprising centered in the western Iranian region of Azerbaijan, seeking greater autonomy from Abbasid rule and challenging centralized taxation and authority.
Babak emerged as the movement’s principal figure and led a sustained resistance that leveraged local support
The revolt gradually weakened as Abbasid efforts intensified. In 837 CE, Abbasid forces under the general Afshin
Babak’s legacy endures in Iranian and Azerbaijani historiography as a symbol of local resistance to centralized