The Khurramiyya

According to Ibn al-Nadim, the Khurramiyya are doctrines on representing God, the enjoyment of pleasures, devotion to the attainment of desires, eating and drinking, mutual support, mixing together, and the abandonment of domination of one another. ²

He reports that they share in what is sacred and in their families, and that at the same time they regard good deeds, the avoidance of killing, and the avoidance of causing pain to souls as duties. They have a doctrine of hospitality: when they host a person, they refuse him nothing he asks for. ²

Mazdak the Younger, who appeared in the days of Qubad ibn Firuz and was killed by Anushirvan, held this doctrine. The Babakite Khurramiyya had as their leader Babak al-Khurrami, who told those whom he seduced that he was a god. He introduced killing, anger, wars and mutilation into their doctrines, which the Khurramiyya had not known, according to Ibn al-Nadim. ³