Greater Khorasan is a large territory that includes most of northern Afghanistan and north-eastern Iran. From a political point of view it also includes Transoxiana and Sistan. The region that is now known as Khorasan Province encompasses less than half of historical Khorasan; the rest of that region now belongs to Afghanistan. These black banners may be those with which Abu Muslim came and overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate in 132 AH.
Justin O'Shea characterizes this hadith as "narrated by Abu Hurayrah but of questionable origin,"[3] and cites Will McCants' description of a "mythology" in which one sign of the End Times is that a Shia army with yellow flags will arise to fight the (Sunni) black flags in Syria — a mythology promoted and exploited by ISIS.[3]
↑Donner, F. (1986). Black Banners from the East: The Establishment of the ’Abbāsid State–Incubation of a Revolt, by Moshe Sharon. (The Max Schloessinger Memorial Series, monograph 2.) The Magnes Press, Jerusalem; E. J. Brill, Leiden1983. Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, 20(1), 73-75. doi:10.1017/S0026318400059058
↑TOURAJ DARYAEE APOCALYPSE NOW: ZOROASTRIAN REFLECTIONS ON THE EARLY ISLAMIC CENTURIES University of California, Los Angeles p. 193-194
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