Khorram-dinan (redirected from Khorramiyyeh)

Khorram-dinan

 or Khorramiyyeh

Islamic sect that flourished in the 9th–11th centuries. Though they were Muslims, some members of this sect believed in transmigration of souls and in the Zoroastrian dualism of good and evil deities. Like the Shi'ites, they were partisans of 'Ali in the succession of the caliphate, and they held that Islam should be led by descendants of Muhammad. They differed from the Shi'ites in insisting that the leadership should be hereditary in the person of Abu Muslim. Claiming to be a descendant of Abu, their leader Babak led a rebellion against the Abbasid Caliphate of Baghdad, which ended with his capture and execution in 838. The sect died out in the 11th century.