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Khurramites
thumb|250px|The late leader of the Khurramīyah movement, Babak Khorramdin was the follower of [[al-Muqanna, a Zoroastrian and Mazdaean prophet.]]
The Khurramites ( , meaning "those of the Joyful Religion") were an Iranian religious and political movement with roots in the Zoroastrian movement of Mazdakism. An alternative name for the movement is the Muhammira (, "Red-Wearing Ones"; in ), a reference to their symbolic red dress.

Behafarid
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Behāfarīd (Middle Persian: Weh-āfrīd, , also spelled Bihāfarīd) was an 8th-century Persian Zoroastrian heresiarch who started a religious peasant revolt with elements from Zoroastrianism and Islam (Behafaridians) He believed in Zoroaster and upheld all Zoroastrian institutions. His followers prayed seven times a day facing the Sun, prohibited intoxicants, and kept their hair long and disallowed sacrifices of cattle except when they were decrepit. His revolt was quelled by the Abbasid general Abu Muslim, and he was executed by hanging. His followers, however, believed that he would

Mazdaznan
thumb|Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha'nish, founder of Mazdaznan

Ustadh Sis
8th-century Persian anti-Abbasid rebel leader
Azar Kayvan
Persian philosopher and priest