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Sakastan Sijistan Sistan Sistān (Persian: سیستان), also
known as Sakastān (Persian: سَكستان "the land of the Saka") and
Sijistan (Persian: سِجِستان),...
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caliphate and the
succeeding Umayyad Caliphate, and
caliphal governor of
Sijistan in the 7th
century CE.
According to Ibn Manzur, Ibn
Samura was a Quray****e...
- Sufi
saint and philosopher. Born in
Sanjar (of modern-day Iran), or in
Sijistan, he
arrived in
Delhi during the
reign of the
Sultan Iltutmish (d. 1236)...
- the
commander Uqba ibn Nafi in 670,
while the
conquests in
Khurasan and
Sijistan on the
eastern frontier were resumed.
Although Mu'awiya
confined the influence...
- al-Malik.
About the time of
caliph Yazid's death, the
Umayyad governor of
Sijistan (present-day
eastern Iran),
Yazid ibn Ziyad,
faced a
rebellion of the Zunbil...
- east of the
Great Desert. In this
larger sense, it
included Transoxiana,
Sijistan and Quhistan. Its
Central Asian boundary was the
Chinese desert and the...
-
vizier Abu Ali Bal'ami ),
Nishapur (praising its emir,
Ahmad al-Mikali),
Sijistan (under
Tahir ibn Muhammad), Gharchistan, and
Arrajan (with
Sahib ibn Abbad)...
- (عبيد الله بن أبي بكرة, died c. 698-699 CE) was an
Umayyad governor of
Sijistan and a
military commander. He was the son of Abu Bakra, a
former Abyssinian...
- ibn Samura, a
general of the
Umayyad Caliphate and
caliphal governor of
Sijistan,
captured Kabul for the
first time,
critically weakening the
Nezak Huns...
- to Islam.The
leader of the
expedition was
Abbad ibn Ziyad, who
governed Sijistan between 673 and 681. In AD 870,
Yaqub ibn
Layth Saffari, a
local ruler...
