The Arab Conquest of Bukhārā: Reconsidering Qutayba b. Muslim’s Campaigns 87‒90 H/706‒709 CE
This paper reconsiders the existing accounts of Qutayba b. Muslim’s campaigns in Bukhārā in the context of the region’s historical topography. It proposes a new yet more coherent reconstruction of the course of events during these campaigns. The resulting new narrative highlights how difficult this...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2018
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Der Islam
Year: 2018, Volume: 95, Issue: 2, Pages: 367-400 |
| Further subjects: | B
Qutayba b. Muslim
Khurāsān
Sogdiana
Bukhārā
Mā warāʾ-al-nahr
Arab Conquest
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| Summary: | This paper reconsiders the existing accounts of Qutayba b. Muslim’s campaigns in Bukhārā in the context of the region’s historical topography. It proposes a new yet more coherent reconstruction of the course of events during these campaigns. The resulting new narrative highlights how difficult this first step of the conquest of Mā warāʾ-al-nahr was for the Arab armies. |
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| ISSN: | 1613-0928 |
| Contains: | In: Der Islam
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/islam-2018-0027 |