خداش البلخي

خداش البلخي

Khidash al-Balkhi — one of the Khurasani propagandists, destroyed by his own extremism according to Taqqush's account 1.

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The Umayyad Period
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Persia & Central Asia
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Khidash al-Balkhi, one of the Abbasid missionaries in Khurasan, together with Abu Ikrima al-Sarraj, Muhammad ibn Khunays, Hayyan al-Attar and Kathir al-Kufi. Taqqush says that the Umayyad authorities pursued the missionaries and killed some of them, and that others fell victim to their own extremism, such as Khidash al-Balkhi. 1

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Sources

  1. Tarikh al-Dawla al-Abbasiyya — Muhammad Suhayl Taqqush (7th ed. 2009), p. 22
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islam.museum contributors. “خداش البلخي”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/khidash-al-balkhi/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.

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