Commander · 669 to 715

Qutayba ibn Muslim

Governor of Khurasan who conquered Bukhara, Samarkand and Khwarazm. He was killed by his own troops in 715 after rebelling against the new caliph Sulayman.

At a glance

Lived: 669 to 715
Role: Commander
Era: The Umayyads of Damascus
Chapter: 2. The Umayyads

Battles

712
Conquest of Samarkand
City taken by treaty. Qutayba's campaigns brought Bukhara and Samarkand into the caliphate, the start of Central Asia's long place in Islamic history.

Qutayba ibn Muslim's world

750: The Umayyads of Damascus

Muawiya ruled from Damascus and named his son Yazid as heir, the first time the caliphate passed from father to son. Karbala followed in 680. Then came the largest expansion in Islamic history: Spain in 711, Sindh in 712 and Central Asia up to the Syr Darya.

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People of the same era

Husayn ibn Ali Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz Tariq ibn Ziyad Muhammad bin Qasim

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