Azad Peroz, known in Arabic sources as Azad Firuz, was a Sasanian nobleman who served as the governor of Bahrain during the reign of Khosrau II (590-628). The Arabs gave him the nickname of `Mukabir` (the mutilating), because he cut the hands and feet of other people. He was the son of a man named Gushnasp. According to a tradition, a caravan of.....