كسرى أنوشروان

Khosrow I Anushirvan, king of the Persians, who succeeded Kavad ibn Firuz. He strongly disliked the Mazdakite doctrine, and killed Mazdak and many who professed his doctrine. He restored al-Mundhir ibn Ma al-Sama to the governorship of al-Hira. ^{1 2}

Khosrow sought al-Harith ibn Amr al-Kindi, whom Kavad had appointed over al-Hira, but he escaped to the lands of the Banu Kalb and remained among them until he died. ¹

The reports of al-Tabari about his reign are not given in this entry, and the Ar-Raheeq does not name the other king who imprisoned al-Nu'man ibn al-Mundhir.

In Arabic the name Anushirwan is the form of the surname of Chosroes I, from a Persian word meaning 'possessed of an immortal soul', later read as Nushirvan, 'possessed of a sweet soul'. Several Muslims bore it, among them a son of Manuchihr and of a daughter of Mahmud of Ghazni, who was amir of Jurjan from 420/1029 to 434/1042. ³