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Behāfarīd was an enigmatic holy man active in Iran in the last years of Umayyad rule. He preached a creed that, from our surviving sources, seems to have aimed at reinvigorating Zoroastrianism by bringing in quite a few Islamic elements into the faith. His message was initially quite successful, especially amongst the lower classes, but he was eventually defeated by an alliance of "pure" Muslims and Zoroastrians, disturbed by his hybrid creed.

What if Behāfarīd was able to achieve as much success as Muhammad before him?
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