High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Abu Muslim Abd al-Rahman ibn Muslim al-Khorasani was an Abbasid general of Persian origin, born in city of Balkh in Khorasan who led the first liberal movement against the Umayyad dynasty. Although there is debate on what his real name was, Behzadan was bestowed unto him by the Abbasids. He grew up in Kufa, in Iraq. Abu Muslim was a major supporter of the Abbasid cause, having met with their Imam Ibrahim ibn Muhammad in Mecca, and was later a personal friend of Abu al-'Abbas Al-Saffah, the future Caliph. He observed the revolt in Kufa in 736 tacitly. With the death of the Umayyad Caliph Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik in 743, the Islamic world was launched into civil war. Abu Muslim was sent to Khorasan by the Abbasids initially as a propagandist and then to revolt on their behalf. He took Merv in December 747, defeating the Umayyad governor there Nasr ibn Sayyar, as well as Shayban al-Khariji, a Kharijite aspirant to the caliphate.

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