What if Khaydar Al-Afshin, governor of Transoxiana during the early period of the Abbasid Caliphate who was instrumental in the struggle against the northwestern Iranian rebel Babak Khorramdin and the Byzantines in Anatolia, had succeeded in his political struggle against the Abdullah ibn Taher, governor of Khorasan?
What were Al-Afshin's actual political plans in the middle of all his intrigue?
If he wished to become an autonomous vassal ruler of the caliph in Iran, could he have estabilished a state like that of the Tahirids?
Albeit Al-Afshin's OTL downfall (accusations of idolatry and tolerance towards polytheists, and encouraging a Tabaristani Zoroastrian noble, Mazyar, to rebel) might imply that he wished to break free from Abbasid control and estabilish an independent state in Iran as a whole. Could he have succeeded in instigating a large-scale uprising against the Abbasids?
What were Al-Afshin's actual political plans in the middle of all his intrigue?
If he wished to become an autonomous vassal ruler of the caliph in Iran, could he have estabilished a state like that of the Tahirids?
Albeit Al-Afshin's OTL downfall (accusations of idolatry and tolerance towards polytheists, and encouraging a Tabaristani Zoroastrian noble, Mazyar, to rebel) might imply that he wished to break free from Abbasid control and estabilish an independent state in Iran as a whole. Could he have succeeded in instigating a large-scale uprising against the Abbasids?
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