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8th century Persian Zoroastrian heresiarch who started a religious peasant revolt with elements from Zoroastrianism and Islam. His revolt was quelled by the Abbasid general Abu Muslim, and he was executed by hanging. Some of his followers joined the Ustadh Sis movement.

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Extensive 3 page article in Encyclopedia Iranica (PDF) (http://www.iranica.com/articles/search/searchpdf.isc?ReqStrPDFPath=/home1/iranica/articles/v4_articles/behafarid&OptStrLogFile=/home/iranica/public_html/logs/pdfdownload.html)

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The Institute of Ismaili Studies - Sectarian and National Movements in Iran, Khurasan and Transoxania During Umayyad ... (7951 words)
	Setting himself up, possibly as a new prophet, at Khwaf to the south of Nishapur, Bihafarid rejected many of the practices of his contemporary Zoroastrians and preached syncretistic doctrines based on a type of 'reformed' Zoroastrianism and on certain aspects of Islam.
	Bihafarid's innovative ideas soon became intolerable to the leaders of the traditional Zoroastrian establishment, who complained about his heresy to Abu Muslim.
	Abu Muslim had Bihafarid captured in the mountains of Badhghis and brought to Nishapur, where he and many of his followers, known as the Bihafaridiyya, were put to death in 749.

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