A survey of the Historical background of Ayyari movement in Iran.

Benevolent caraliership in Iran so called "Ayyari" is one of the most interesting aspects of Iranian social history. The evident shows that this social tradition origin returns to pre-islamic era since Mani's teaching prevailed in this period. For instance, one can find same traditions in Ferdosi narration of Shahnameh. It seems that Ferdosi attempted to retell the very facts he had been told of. This tradition turned to be anti-Arab movements of many Iranians in post-eslamic era since Arab rulers and their allied classes were displeased by the publics because of their unlimited cruelty. The people who followed Ayyari tradition were called Ayyaran. They belonged to very poor classes and there fore, they supported the poor. They fighted against the higher classes such as nobles, wealthy people and feudalists. This tradition migrated to Europe with the expansion of Islamic empire and turned to be cavalry tradition in the tenth centry. Ayyari movement remained vital in East of Iran and played a great role in many historical events during Abbasi era a lot of Iranian kings and rulers orginially relied on this tradition for their domintion. It remained as a social value and emerged differently in every period of history.