Babak Khorramdin

Babak Khorramdin
Statue in Babek city, Nakhjavan Azerbaijan
Native name	پاپک خرمدین
Born	795 or 798 Kaleybar,Adharbayjan, Persia
Died	7 January 838 Samarra
Years active	23
Known for	Leader of the Khorram-Dinān
Opponent(s)	Abbasid Caliphate

Bābak Khorramdin (Formally known as "Pāpak" meaning "Young Father") (Persian: بابک خرمدین‎‎, alternative spelling: Pāpak Khorramdin; 795, according to some other sources 798— January 838) was one of the main Persian revolutionary leaders of the IranianKhorram-Dinān ("Those of the joyous religion"), which was a local freedom movement fighting the Abbasid Caliphate. Khorramdin appears to be a compound analogous to dorustdin "orthodoxy" and Behdin "Good Religion" (Zoroastrianism), and are considered an offshoot of neo-Mazdakism. Babak's Iranianizing rebellion, from its base in Adharbayjan in northwestern Iran, called for a return of the political glories of the Iranian past. The Khorramdin rebellion of Babak spread to the Western and Central parts of Iran and lasted more than twenty years before it was defeated when Babak was betrayed. Babak's uprising showed the continuing strength in Adharbayjan of ancestral Iranian local feelings.

Babak (Persian: بابک) is a given name for Iranian males It is Arabicized for Pāpak which means "young father" in Middle Persian.

Bābak was born into a Persian family in Adharbayjan (northwestern Iran) close to the city of Artawila (modern Ardabil). According to Wāqid ibn 'Amr Tamimi, the oldest biographer on Babak, Bābak's father was a Persian cooking-oil vendor from Ctesiphon, capital of the Sasanian Empire (modern al-Mada'in, 35 km south of Baghdad in Iraq) who left for the Adharbayjani frontier zone and settled in the village of Balālābād in the Maymadh district. According to Fasīh, his mother – a native Persian of Adharbayjan – was known as Māhrū Moon-Face/Belle.

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