Person

Afshin

General of the Abbasid Caliphate

b. 790 CE – d. 841 CE World The Great Crossroads

Khaydār b. Kāvūs Afshīn, known by his hereditary title as Afshin, is a senior general at the court of Abbasid caliphs and a son of the vassal prince of Oshrūsana.