سنباذ المجوسي

Sunbadh the Magian, from the village of Ahrawana on the outskirts of Nishapur, who led a movement that arose in the year 137 AH after the killing of Abu Muslim al-Khurasani ².

Sunbadh rose seeking revenge for Abu Muslim against Abu Ja'far al-Mansur. Many followers came after him. He prevailed over Nishapur, Qumis and al-Rayy, took the title "Firuz Asbadh", seized Abu Muslim's treasuries, and announced that he would attack Mecca and destroy the Ka'ba in revenge ³.

al-Mansur sent an army under Jahwar ibn Marrar al-Ijli against him, and it crushed him in the year 137 AH, seventy days after the movement began ⁴.

• Taqqush holds that the movement had three motives: political, in avenging Abu Muslim; doctrinal, drawing its principles from the Khurramiyya and the Mazdakiyya; and racial, aiming to revive the Persian state. This is the author's assessment, and we have not yet verified it against primary sources ⁵.
• The entry is built on Taqqush's summary of the book, and we have not yet gone back to the primary sources.