Jun 25

The anger of Khorasanis from the murder of Abu Muslim

Abu Muslim It took 20 days for the news of the assassination of Abu Muslim Khorasani to travel from Baghdad to city of Toos (Khorasan) and cause the anger of the Khorasanians (by Khorasan it is meant the greater Khorasan of which most of the land is now in Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan). Abu Muslim Khorasani was assassinated on June 5, 775 AD, in Mesopotamia, by instigations of Mansour, the Abbasid Caliph.     The rising of followers of Abu Muslim, though finally resulted in the independence of Iran, but at that time did not give any result.     Abu Muslim, born in Isfahan, was an army general in Khorasan, who in the year 737 AD, after conquering Marv city, revolted against the reign of Omayyed (Omayyed Caliphate), and after some battles, put an end to their rule and transferred the caliphate to the Abbasids. It did not take long before Abu Muslim realized that the Abbasids are no better than the Omayyeds in greed, and therefore started criticizing them and this made Mansour, the Abbasid Caliph, feel danger from his side and decide to assassinate him.          Translation by Rowshan Lohrasbpour (AmordadNews writer)