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The Institute of Ismaili Studies - Sectarian and National Movements in Iran, Khurasan and Transoxania During Umayyad ... |
 | | Setting himself up, possibly as a new prophet, at Khwaf to the south of Nishapur, Bihafarid rejected many of the practices of his contemporary Zoroastrians and preached syncretistic doctrines based on a type of 'reformed' Zoroastrianism and on certain aspects of Islam. |
| | Bihafarid's innovative ideas soon became intolerable to the leaders of the traditional Zoroastrian establishment, who complained about his heresy to Abu Muslim. |
| | Abu Muslim had Bihafarid captured in the mountains of Badhghis and brought to Nishapur, where he and many of his followers, known as the Bihafaridiyya, were put to death in 749. |
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