The Arab conquests in Central Asia

But though the situation was steadily deteriorating the decisive moment had not yet come. The new governor, Asad b. ʿAbdullah, seems to have seen something of the danger though...

The booty from the first expedition into Khwārizm was enough to satisfy Qutayba’s troops, who demanded to be allowed to return to their homes, but a sudden thrust at Samarqand p...

The expedition therefore was obviously against unbelievers. That the whole of _S_ughd was lost to the Arabs is clear from the fact that Asad found it necessary to take provision...

Thus within six years from the death of Qutayba, much of his work was undone. He had laid the foundations on which the later rule of Islām was built, and laid them well, though...

Transcriber’s Note: This text makes use of an uncommon system for transcription of Arabic. Italics, sometimes on a _s_ingle le_t_ter, are semantically meaningful; and you’ll nee...

This expedition may in all probability be dated in 121/739. A year or two later, Na_s_r collected his forces, which included levies from Transoxania, for an attack on Shāsh. Wel...

In the following year, Qutayba, first making sure of the crossings at Āmul and Zamm, opened his campaigns in Bukhārā with an attack on Paykand. From the expressions of Narshakhī...

After the conquests made by Salm, which probably occupied the years 682 and 683, it seemed as though the Arabs were on the verge of imposing their rule on Transoxania when civil...

The early Arabic sources are remarkably rich in material for the reconstruction of the conquests in Khurāsān and Transoxania. For the earlier period the narratives of Yaʿqūbī an...