Al-Muqanna
Afghani Islamic sect founder (died c. 783) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Al-Muqanna (Arabic: المقنع "The Veiled", died c. 783[1]) born Hashim, (Arabic/Persian: هاشم), was an 8th-century political and military leader who operated in modern Iran. He led an anti-Islamic rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate and claimed to be a prophet. He was a major figure of the Khorrām-Dīn, an Iranian religion which drew on Zoroastrian and Islamic influences.
Iranian academics Said Nafisi and Amir-Hossein Aryanpour wrote about him in the context of the Khorrām-Dīnān, the religion he founded in AD 755.