Bābak Khurramdîn[1] en persan, Pāpak Khorramî[2] en pehlevi[3], ayant vécu entre 795 (ou 798 selon d'autres sources) et [4]. Babak était l'un des principaux chefs révolutionnaires perse[5],[6],[7]; du mouvement iranien Khurramites[8] (La religion joyeuse), un mouvement d'indépendance iranien qui se battait contre le califat Abbasside.
↑(en) M. Whittow, The Making of Byzantium: 600-1025, Berkeley, University of California Press, p. 195, 203, 215. Extrait : « Azerbaijan was the scene of frequent anti-caliphal and anti-Arab revolts during the eighth and ninth centuries, and Byzantine sources talk of Persian warriors seeking refuge in the 830s from the caliph's armies by taking service under the Byzantine emperor Theophilos. [...] Azerbaijan had a Persian population and was a traditional centre of the Zoroastrian religion. [...] The Khurramites were a [...] Persian sect, influenced by Shiite doctrines, but with their roots in a pre-Islamic Persian religious movement. »
↑L'historien arménien Vardan Areweltsʻi, ca. 1198-1271 écrit : « In these days, a man of the PERSIAN race, named Bab, who had went from Baltat killed many of the race of Ismayil (what Armenians called Arabs) by sword and took many slaves and thought himself to be immortal. ...Ma'mun for 7 years was battling in the Greek territories and ...came back to Mesopotamia ». Voir : La domination arabe en Arménie, extrait de l’Histoire universelle de Vardan, traduit de l’arménien et annoté, J. Muyldermans, Louvain et Paris, 1927, p. 119 : « En ces jours-là, un homme de la race PERSE, nommé Bab, sortant de Baltat, faiser passer par le fil de l’épée beaucoup de la race d’Ismayēl tandis qu’il... »
Original Grabar: Havoursn haynosig ayr mi hazkes Barsitz Pap anoun yelyal i Baghdada, arganer zpazoums i sour suseri hazken Ismayeli, zpazoums kerelov. yev anser zinkn anmah. yev i mium nvaki sadager yeresoun hazar i baderazmeln youroum ent Ismayeli
↑L'historien arabe Ibn Hazm (994-1064) mentionne les différentes révoltes iraniennes contre le califat dans son livre Al-fasl fi al-milal wal-nihal. Il écrit : « The Persians had the great land expanse and were greater than all other people and thought of themselves as better... after their defeated by Arabs, they rose up to fight against Islam, but God did not give them victory. Among their leaders were Sanbadh, Muqanna', Ostadsis and Babak and others ». En arabe :
«أن الفرس كانوا من سعة الملك وعلو اليد على جميع الأمم وجلالة الخطير في أنفسهم حتى أنهم كانوا يسمون أنفسهم الأحرار والأبناء وكانوا يعدون سائر الناس عبيداً لهم فلما امتحنوا بزوال الدولة عنهم على أيدي العرب وكانت العرب أقل الأمم عند الفرس خطراً تعاظمهم الأمر وتضاعفت لديهم المصيبة وراموا كيد الإسلام بالمحاربة في أوقات شتى ففي كل ذلك يظهر الله سبحانه وتعالى الحق وكان من قائمتهم سنبادة واستاسيس والمقنع وبابك وغيرهم ». Voir : al-Faṣl fī al-milal wa-al-ahwāʾ wa-al-niḥal / taʾlīf Abī Muḥammad ʻAlī ibn Aḥmad al-maʻrūf bi-Ibn Ḥazm al-Ẓāhirī ; taḥqīq Muḥammad Ibrāhīm Naṣr, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ʻUmayrah. Jiddah : Sharikat Maktabāt ʻUkāẓ, 1982.