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Mahabad (, ; also Romanized as Mahābād and Mehābād; formerly known as Sāūjbulākh or Sawcheblakh) is a city in and the capital of Mahabad County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 133,324, in 31,000 families.
The city's population is Kurdish, with the city lying south of Lake Urmia in a narrow valley 1,300 metres above sea level.
Mahabad ( Kurdish: مەهاباد Mehabad, Persian: مهاباد Mahābād) is believed to be a pre- Zoroastrian prophet. He is also called Azar Hooshang, the Fire of Wisdom. In some traditions he is believed to be the first human.
Section 3 of the Dabestan-e Mazaheb is dedicated to the Yazdanians (also called the Sahi Kesh or Sipasi), who held Mahabad to be the most exalted of prophets and the progenitor of the entire human race. The Dabestan briefly outlines the Yazdanians' beliefs and describes Mahabad's code of laws, the Paiman-i Farhang (Excellent Covenant).
According to the Dasatir-i-Asmani, a text written in the 16th or 17th century by the Zoroastrian mystic Azar Kayvan, he lived in an earlier cycle of time (before Gayomard) and was the first of sixteen successive prophets. The thirteenth of these prophets was Zoroaster and the last was Sasan V, the alleged author of the Dasatir.
In a similar vein, the 19th-century Zoroastrian Maneckji Limji Hataria referred to "the religion of Mahabad and Zoroaster" in his exchange of letters with Bahá'u'lláh. He described Zoroaster as a "Mahabadi prophet" and Mahabad as the "First Intellect", of whom "we are his descendants." Bahá'u'lláh's responses to Hataria, which include quotations of Hataria's questions to Bahá'u'lláh, are preserved today in the Tabernacle of Unity.
Mahabad is a city in northwestern Iran.
Mahabad may also refer to:
- Republic of Mahabad, a short-lived, Kurdish state of the 20th century, officially known as the Republic of Kurdistan
- Mahabad, Isfahan, a city in Isfahan Province, Iran
- Mahabad, Kerman, a village in Kerman Province, Iran
- Mahabad, Razavi Khorasan, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- Mahabad-e Jadid, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- Mahabad-e Olya, a village in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran
- Mahabad, Tehran, a village in Tehran Province, Iran
- Mahabad Agricultural Training Camp, in West Azerbaijan Province, Iran
- Mahabad, Yazd, a city in Yazd Province, Iran
- Mahabad County, a county in Iran
- Mahabad (prophet), a pre-Zoroastrian Prophet
- Mahabad Qaradaghi (b. 1966), Kurdish writer, poet and translator
Mahabad (electoral district) is a 7th electoral district in the West Azerbaijan Province. this electoral district have 215,529 population and elects 1 members of parliament.