A survey of the Historical background of Ayyari movement in Iran.

Subject Areas : Epistemological and methodological researcher of historical research

seddigheh ghannadzadeh ¹ (کارشناس ارشد تاریخ گروه تاریخ آموزش و پرورش خراسان شمالی)

Received: 2016-11-18 Accepted : 2016-11-18 Published : 2007-06-22

Keywords: Ayyarids, Partians, Europe, Showalids, Islamic Iran,

Abstract :

Benevolent caraliership in Iran so called "Ayyari" is one of the mostinteresting aspects of Iranian social history . The evident shows that thissocial tradition origin returns to pre-islamic era since Mani's teachingprevailed in this period . For instance , one can find same traditions inFerdosi narration of Shahnameh . It seems that Ferdosi attempted to retellthe very facts he had been told of . This tradition turned to be anti-Arabmovements of many Iranians in post-eslamic era since Arab rulers andtheir allied classes were displeased by the publics because of theirunlimited cruelty . The people who followed Ayyari tradition were calledAyyaran . They belonged to very poor classes and there fore , theysupported the poor. They fighted against the higher classes such asnobles, wealthy people and feudalists. This tradition migrated to Europewith the expansion of Islamic empire and turned to be cavalry tradition inthe tenth centry . Ayyari movement remained vital in East of Iran andplayed a great role in many historical events during Abbasi era a lot ofIranian kings and rulers orginially relied on this tradition for theirdomintion . It remained as a social value and emerged differently inevery period of history .