By Prof. Muhammet Şemsettin
Gözübüyükoğlu (Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis)
Pre-publication of chapter XVI of my
forthcoming book “Turkey is Iran and Iran is Turkey – 2500 Years of indivisible
Turanian – Iranian Civilization distorted and estranged by Anglo-French
Orientalists”; chapters XIV, XV and XVI belong to Part Five (Fallacies about
Sassanid History, History of Religions, and the History of Migrations). The
book is made of 12 parts and 33 chapters.
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Hsiung-nu soldier from Saksanokhur, Tajikistan
However, soon
afterwards, Europe faced two major threats that lasted many centuries: the
Islamic armies and the Manichaean subversion. Despite their ferocity and their
conquests, at a certain point the Islamic armies were stopped either in Western
or in Eastern Europe. But the Manichaean tidal wave that hit Europe back was
disproportional and beyond any expectation.
Starting from the Eastern Roman
Empire and the entire Caucasus region and as early as the 7th c. CE, the
Paulicians triggered an enormous religious, social and imperial destabilization
across vast lands. The famous Eastern Roman Akritai, i.e. the imperial Eastern
Roman guards and frontal forces against the Islamic Caliphate, were – all –
Paulicians, having rejected the Christian Orthodox Constantinopolitan theology.
Digenes Akritas, the Eastern Roman Empire's greatest hero and Modern Greeks' most
revered and foremost legendary figure was a Paulician, not an Orthodox.
Constantinopolitan
patriarchs, emperors and theologians persistently described the Paulicians as
Manichaeans; they used the same term also for the Iconoclasts. This does not
mean that these religious, spiritual and esoteric systems of faith were
'Manichaean' stricto sensu, but they were definitely formed under determinant
Manichaean impact. The same concerns the Bogomiles across the Balkans, Central
and Western Europe, starting in the 10th c., the Cathars across Western Europe
from the 12th c. onwards, and also many other religious, spiritual and esoteric
systems that derived from the aforementioned.
The Muslim friends,
partners and associates of the Paulicians were also groups formed under strong
Manichaean impact and historically viewed as such; known as Babakiyah or
Khurramites or Khorram-dinan, the 8th c. religious group setup by Sunpadh and
led in the 9th c. by Babak Khurramdin made an alliance with the Eastern Roman
Emperor Theophilos (829-842), an outstanding Iconoclast, and not only
repeatedly revolted against the Abbasid Caliphate but also fought along with
the Eastern Roman army in 837 in the Anti-Taurus Mountains to recapture
Melitene (Malatya), and on many other occasions. The Khurramite commander Nasir
and 14000 Iranian Khurramite rebels had no problem in being baptized Iconoclast
Christians and taking Greek names (Nasir became then known as Theophobos),
which shows the Manichaean origins and affinities of the Iconoclasts and the
Khurramites.
The state of the Paulicians The massacre of the PauliciansKale-ye Babak, the impregnable castle of the Babakiyah (or Khurramites) near Kaleybar – East Azerbaijan, Iran Afshin brings Babak as captive in Samarra. from a manuscript miniature of the Safavid times
Babak Khorramdin statue from Babek city in Nakhchivan province of Azerbaijan
Within the context of
early Islamic caliphates, the Manicheans prospered, definitely marked by their
superiority in terms of spirituality, letters, sciences, philosophy and
cosmology. It was relatively easy for them to reinterpret the Quran as a
Manichaean scripture; it was totally impossible for the uneducated and naïve
early Muslims to oppose Manicheans in open debate or to outfox Manichaean
interpretative schemes. Among the leading Muslim erudite polymaths, mystics,
poets and translators of the early period of Islamic Civilization (7th – 8th
c.), many defended all major pillars of the Manichaean doctrine and even the
dualist dogma; Ibn al Muqaffa is an example. The illustrious translator of the
Middle Persian literary masterpiece Kalila wa Dimna into Arabic was a
crypto-Manichaean Muslim, and surely he was not the only. Ibn al Muqaffa was
executed as per the order of Caliph al-Mansur (754-775), but the first
persecution of the Manicheans started only under the Caliph al-Mahdi (775-785);
however, this was the time many groups and movements or Manichean origin
started openly challenging Islam and the Caliphate in every sense. However, it
is noteworthy that the greatest Caliph of all times, Harun al Rashid (786-809),
had a very tolerant and friendly stance toward Manicheans of all types.
Abu’l Abbas al-Saffah proclaimed as the first Abbasid Caliph: the Abbasid dynasty opened the door for a cataclysmic Iranian cultural, intellectual, academic, scientific and spiritual impact on the Muslim world.
However, it is only as
late as the time of Caliph al-Muqtadir (908-932) that the Manicheans,
persecuted in the Caliphate, left Mesopotamia in big numbers, making of
Afrasiab (Samarqand) and Central Asia the center of their faith, life and
activities. This was not a coincidence; many Turanians had already been long
date enthusiastic Manichean converts and adepts, whereas several Manichaean
monuments unearthed in Central Asia date back to the 4th c. At the time of
al-Mansur, the Uyghur Khaqan (: Emperor) Boku Tekin accepted Manichaeism as
official state religion in 763; the Uyghur Khaqanate stretched from the Tian
Shan mountains and the Lake Balkhash (today's Kazakhstan) to the Pacific. For
more than one century, Manichaeism was the state religion across the entire
Northeastern Asia.
During the same time,
Manichaeism was diffused in Tibet and China. Similarly with what occurred in
the Islamic Caliphate, Manicheans in Tibet and China had it easy to reinterpret
Buddhism in Manichaean terms. As a matter of fact, Chinese Buddhism is full of
Manichaean impregnations. For this reason, several anti-Buddhist Chinese
emperors (like Wuzong of Tang in the period 843-845) confused the Manicheans
with the Buddhists and persecuted them too. However, Manichaeism was for many
centuries a fundamental component and a critical parameter of all social,
spiritual, intellectual and religious developments in China. And this was due
to the incessant interaction of Turanians and Iranians across Asia. About:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulicianism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Iconoclasm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akritai
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digenes_Akritas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khurramites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunpadh
https://iranicaonline.org/articles/korramis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babak_Khorramdin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilos_(emperor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophobos
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomilism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Muqaffa%27
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_Khaganate
During the Sassanid and
early Islamic periods, the central provinces of Iran had to embrace many
Turanian newcomers. This was one of the numerous Turanian waves that the
Iranian plateau and its periphery had to welcome across the millennia. A vast
and critical topic of the World History that was excessively distorted and
systematically misrepresented across various disciplines of the Humanities is
the chapter of the major Eurasiatic Migrations. Various distorting lenses have
been used in this regard. It is surely beyond the scope of the present chapter
to outline this subject, but I must at least mention it with respect to the
persistent Orientalist efforts to divide and dissociate Iranian from Turanian
nations across several millennia.
If one accepts naively
the 'official' dogma of Western colonial historiography, one imagines that all
the world's major civilizations (Sumerians, Elamites,
Akkadians-Assyrians/Babylonians, Egyptians, Cushites-Sudanese, Hittites,
Hurrians, Urartu, Phoenicians, Iranians, Greeks, Romans, Dravidians, Chinese,
etc.) were automatically popped up and instantly formed by settled populations.
Modern historians, who compose this sort of nonsensical narratives, are
monstrous gangsters intending to desecrate human civilization and to extinguish
human spirituality. All civilizations were started by nomads, and there was
always a time when all indigenous nations (each of them in its own turn) were
migrants.
But modern Western
historians intentionally and criminally misrepresent the major Eurasiatic
Migrations in a most systematic and most sophisticated manner, by only
introducing - partly and partially - aspects of this overwhelming and continual
phenomenon, like spices on gourmet dishes. I do not imply that the Eurasiatic
Migrations were the only to have happened or to have mattered; there were also
important migrations in Africa, the Pacific, and the continent of the Aztecs,
the Mayas and the Incas. However, I limit the topic to the migrations that are
relevant to the History of Iran and Turan. So, those who study Ancient Roman
History are customarily told that, 'although everything was fine and civilized
Romans prospered in peace', suddenly some iniquitous barbarians arrived to
invade Roman lands and to embarrass the civilized settled populations
altogether; this type of bogus-historical presentations is a Crime against the
Mankind, because it distorts the foremost reality of human history, namely that
we have all been migrants.
There
is no worst bigotry worldwide than that of settled populations.
Yet, every manual of
history would be easily rectified, if few extra chapters were added, at the
beginning and during the course of the narration, to offer an outline of
parallel developments occurred in the wider and irrevocbly indivisible Eurasia.
The discriminatory,
truly racist, manner by which the civilized migrants are presented in various
manuals of (Mesopotamian, Egyptian, Cushitic, Anatolian, Roman, Greek,
European, Russian, Iranian, Dravidian, and Chinese) History helps only
reinstate the vicious and immoral axiom that 'History is written by the
victors'. Every historian, who does not consciously write in an objective
manner to reveal the truth and to reject the paranoia of the aforementioned
adage, is an enemy of the Mankind.
Beyond the
aforementioned points, many historians today will try to find an excuse, saying
that, by writing about let's say the so-called 'barbarian invasions of the
Roman Empire', they intentionally reflect the Roman viewpoint, because they rely
on Roman historical sources. This could eventually be accepted, if stated in
1820, when the modern science of history had not advanced much, and only few
archaeological excavations had taken place. But if this is seriously expressed
as an apology today, it constitutes an outrage. The least one can say to these
forgers is that they must first obtain an interdisciplinary degree, before
publishing their nonsensical manual, or – alternatively - study several
paperbacks on the History of the Migrant Nations (in this case: Huns, Vandals,
Goths, etc.).
An even greater mistake
that modern historians make is that they present the continual phenomenon of
Eurasiatic migrations in a most fragmentary manner; this creates, by means of
Nazi propaganda, the wrong idea and the distorted impression that all of a
sudden, every now and then, new migrants appear in the horizon, coming out of
the vast Asiatic 'nowhere'. This is an aberration and a fallacy. The absurd factoid,
which is deceitfully called "Invasions of the Roman Empire" and is peremptorily
dated between 100 CE and 500 CE, is merely an academic fabrication. Why?
First, there were
incessant migrations before and after the said period.
Second, the aforementioned
factoid is a fallacy due to the fact that, during the same period, other
migrations took also place, but the specialists in Roman History do not mention
(or even do not know) them; however, these migrations (that they fail to even
name) constitute intertwined phenomena with those that they present in their
manuals, and consequently their presentation is a conscious and plain distortion.
Third, the events are
always portrayed as a menace of barbarism, as breach of Roman legitimacy, and
as violation of a hypothetical right of the Roman Empire to exist. This is an
outrage; the Roman Empire was not a sacrosanct institution. In many aspects,
its lawless formation, barbaric expansion, and bloody wars constitute some of
the World History's bleakest pages. But criminal colonial historians never
discussed 'unpleasant' topics with the correct terminology; they did not write
for instance about the barbarian Roman demolition of Carthage, the monstrous
Roman sack of Corinth, the savage Roman invasion of Seleucid Syria or the
lawless Roman annexation of Egypt.
This is the disgusting
bias of the Western colonial historiographers: when a negative development
takes place against Rome, it is 'bad'; and quite contrarily, when an
undesirable occurrence happens to others, it is 'good'. And in order to
represent this vicious bias as 'historical truth', they mobilize a great
intellectual effort, involving many methods. In this regard, the Eurasiatic migrations
are absurdly fractured into many parts, and many of these parts are
deliberately concealed, when focus is made on only one of them. The
pseudo-academic methods involved to disguise and conceal the topic are
numerous.
First, some migrations
are not presented as such, but named after the migrant nations; examples:
Scythians, Sarmatians, Celts. And yet, these nations are basically known due to
their migrations across vast lands.
Second, other
migrations are not mentioned as such, but called after the name of the location
where excavations brought to light the material remains of a migrant nation's
civilization; example: Andronovo culture, Afanasievo culture, etc.
Third, several migrant
nations of different origin are regrouped after the geography where they
spread; this is totally paranoid, because no one can possibly 'regroup' the
Vandals, who crossed Central and Western Europe, reached North Africa, settled
in Hippo Regius and Carthage, and then attacked Greece, Sicily, Rome, Sardinia,
Corsica and the Iberian coastlands, with the Huns, who crossed Siberia, Russia,
and Ukraine, settled in Eastern Europe and attacked the Balkans, Italy and
Gaul.
Fourth, several migrant
nations are dissociated from one another migrant nation of the same ethnic
origin (example: Huns and Turkic nations), whereas in cases of severe
distortion, different names of the same nation, attested in diverse historical
sources, are tentatively presented as names of two different nations (example:
Huns and Hsiung nu whose name is erroneously spelled Xiongnu).
Fifth, several parts of
migrant nations are arbitrarily dissociated from their ethnic counterparts and
presented separately as settled nations (example: White Huns or Hephthalites).
Sixth, the ethnic
origin of several migrant nations is confusingly presented (example: the
Bulgars, who were a Turkic nation, are often included in Europe's 'Migration
Period' and categorized along with Slavs, whereas they should have been
mentioned in the 'Turkic migrations'!).
To the aforementioned inaccuracies,
distortions and prejudices, a plethora of false maps is added to comfortably
reduce the size of kingdoms, empires and nations whose existence did not happen
to please the discriminatory minds of the perverse Anglo-French and American
colonial historians. About:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andronovo_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afanasievo_culture
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarmatians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scythians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_migration
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hephthalites
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6kt%C3%BCrks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Turkic_Khaganate
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumania
The end result of this
systematization of Western colonial falsehood is that great and highly
civilized conquerors and emperors like Attila, Genghis Khan, Hulagu Khan, Kublai
Khan, Timur Lenk and others appear as mysterious meteorites, who came from
"nowhere", as barbarian invaders, and a "scourges of God",
whereas in reality they all (and many others) were far more educated, more
cultured, more competent and more heroic than any Greek, Macedonian, Roman or
European king or general. To the aforementioned historical reality additional,
deceitful tactics and insidious procedures have been added by the criminal,
racist, Western European and North American 'historians': they definitely
proved to be able to write 100000 words to deplore the destructions supposedly
caused to the Human Civilization by Attila, Genghis Khan, Hulagu Khan, and
others, but when they happen to write about the fact that Alexander the Great
burned Persepolis, they remain malignantly and partially silent, abstaining
from any due criticism.
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King Attila with the Turul bird in his shield (Chronicon Pictum, 1358)
It would be far easier
for all to tell the truth: 'Asia is Turan' for most of its territory. And the
moral lesson must be drawn: the existence of a 'state' is not a reason for
anyone not to invade its lands. States are not sacrosanct; and in any case, the
territory occupied by the nation that setup the local state, in all cases of
historical states, was also invaded by the ancestors of that nation in the
first place.
The biased Western
colonial historians carry out all these distortions as tasks in order to
promote the lawless interests of their own disreputable states; for this reason
they always concealed the following unwavering reality: throughout World
History, various fundamental concepts like 'land', 'state', 'nation', 'sacred
place', etc. have had different connotations among nations of nomadic migrants
and nations of settled populations.
Furthermore, several
fundamental concepts, which are valid among settled nations, have no validity
at all among nomads and migrant nations, and vice versa. In addition, some
basic concepts that exist among nomads and migrant nations start being altered
and becoming different if and when these nations happen to settle somewhere 'permanently'.
The concept of 'universe' and the deriving imperative of 'universalism' are
fundamental notions of nomads and migrant nations; notably, the Akkadians
(early Assyrians – Babylonians), who first produced significant literary
narratives to detail the concept, were also a migrant nation that had settled
only few centuries before writing down in cuneiform texts their world views.
The History of
Eurasiatic Migrations, in and by itself, highlights the extensive presence of
Turanians in Iran since times immemorial. Thanks to the Turanians of the Achaemenid
Empire, the Turkic nations of Central Asia, China and Siberia came to get
detailed descriptions of faraway regions and lands, such as Mesopotamia, Syria-Palestine,
the Caucasus Mountains, the Anatolian plateau, the plains of Ukraine and Central
Europe, the Balkan Peninsula, and Egypt. Consequently, further the interaction
between Iran and Rome progressed, more details about the western confines of
Europe reached the Turanian nomads who were moving around Lake Balkhash
(Kazakhstan), Yenisey River and Baikal Lake (Siberia), Orkhon River (Mongolia),
the Tarim Basin (China), the Oymyakon River (Yakutia, Eastern Siberia) and
other circumferences. The incessant waves of migrations to the West and to the
South were not blind and desperate movements of uninformed barbarians, who ran
like crazy on their horses; only the distorted publications of Western colonial
historians contain similar, nonsensical conclusions.
The pattern of the
Turanian military horsemen and skillful soldiers is absolutely prominent and
protruding in the History of the Early Caliphates; but it is merely the
continuation of a millennia long tradition. This consists in a very embarrassing
fact for all the Western Orientalists specializing in Early Islamic History,
and more particularly with focus on the 8th c. CE, the collapse of the Umayyad
Caliphate, and the rise of Abbasid Baghdad. They therefore constantly come up
with incredible assumptions, farfetched arguments, nonsensical explanations,
and sly innuendos to explain how and why so many Turanian soldiers and military
heads appear in the Islamic Caliphate. In fact, without Turanian military
skills, the Umayyad dynasty of Damascus may have not been overthrown.
It is well known that
the early Islamic armies advanced up to Merv in today's Turkmenistan (651) and
they stopped there. For the next hundred years, the only Islamic advance in
Asia was effectuated only in today's Baluchistan province of Pakistan; only at
the end of the 7th c. and the beginning of the 8th c., the Islamic armies
reached the Indus Delta and Gujarat. But how the Islamic Caliphate started
being flooded with Turanian soldiers as early as the last decades of the
Umayyad rule, if there had not already been massive Turanian populations in the
Sassanid Empire of Iran? If the Turanian nations were confined 'somewhere in
Eastern Siberia and Mongolia' (as per the distortions of colonial
Orientalists), why did they appear to be so deeply involved in battles and
developments that took place in Mesopotamia and Syria during the first half of
the 8th c.? The answer to this question is very simple: there were always
massive Turanian populations in the Pre-Islamic Iranian empires. ''
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