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Muhammad bin Qasim
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Umayyad Hijazi general and governor (695–715)
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Muhammad bin Qasim was a male military leader and general who served the Umayyad Caliphate. Born in Ta'if in 0695-12-31, he held the position of governor and participated in the Umayyad campaigns in India. His significant place of activity was Sindh. He spoke Arabic and practiced Islam. His relative was Yusuf ibn Umar al-Thaqafi.
Muhammad bin Qasim died on 0715-07-18. His place of death is listed as Damascus and Mosul.
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Person · Open Library
- Died
- 1840 or 1841
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Naẓm Laʼāliʼ al-samṭ fī ḥusn taqwīm al-khaṭ
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Brooklyn
Discography
- Fjoloy2014
- Chronology2016
- FILM2017
- Teenages2019
- Limitless2019
- Beta2020
- Two Centuries2022
- Endling2025
- God Docks at Death Harbor2026
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China
· 2020 · cited 36,637x
- Clinical Characteristics of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in China
· 2020 · cited 21,679x
- Clinical course and risk factors for mortality of adult inpatients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective cohort study
· 2020 · cited 21,451x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,798x
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Quotes
- “My ruling is given: Kill anyone belonging to the combatants (ahl-i-ḥarb); arrest their sons and daughters for hostages and imprison them. Whoever submits … grant them amān and settle their tribute (amwāl) as dhimmah.”
- “I am appalled by your bad judgement and astounded by your policies. Why are you so intent on giving amān, even to an enemy whom you have tested and found hostile and intransigent? It is not necessary to give amān to everyone without discrimination. … In any case, if [the Sindis] sincerely request amān and desist from treachery, they will surely stop fighting. Then income will meet expenditures and this long situation can be concluded.”
- “It is acknowledged that all your procedures have been in accordance with religious law (bar jādah-yi shar‘) except for the one practice of giving amān. For you are giving amān to everyone without distinguishing between friend and foe.”
- “The forts of Siwistan and Sisam have been already taken. The nephew of Dahir, his warriors, and principal officers have been despatched, and the infidels converted to Islam or destroyed. Instead of idol temples, mosques and other places of worship have been built, pulpits have been erected, the Khutba is read, the call to prayers is raised, so that devotions are performed at the stated hours. The takbir and praise to the Almighty Allah are offered every morning and evening.”
- “Of the prisoners captured a selection was made from the slaves and other spoils, “in order to detach the usual one-fifth share of the State. The number of the selected slaves came to about 20,000. The rest were distributed among the troops.””
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Key facts
- Leader
- Al-Walid I
- Preceded by
- Position established
- Succeeded by
- Habib ibn al-Muhallab
- Born
- ( 695-12-31 ) 31 December 695, Taif , Hejaz , Umayyad Caliphate, (present-day Saudi Arabia )
- Died
- 18 July 715 (715-07-18) (aged 19), Mosul , Umayyad Caliphate, (present-day Iraq )
- Spouse
- Zaynab (daughter of al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf )
- Relations
- Sulb, al-Hajjaj (brother)
- Parents
- al-Qāsim ibn Yūsuf al-Thaqafī (father) Habībat al-Uzmā (mother)
- Nickname
- فاتح سندھ
- Allegiance
- Umayyad Caliphate
- Battles wars
- Muslim conquest of Sind (708–711), Siege of Debal (711), Battle of Aror (712)
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Encyclopedic overview
Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Thaqafī (Arabic: مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ الْقَاسِمِ الثَّقَفِيِّ; (695-12-31)31 December 695–(715-07-18)18 July 715) was an Arab military commander in service of the Umayyad Caliphate who led the Muslim conquest of Sindh (and Punjab, part of ancient Sindh), inaugurating the Umayyad campaigns in India. His military exploits led to the establishment of the Islamic province of Sindh, and the takeover of the region from the Sindhi Brahman dynasty and its ruler, Raja Dahir, who was subsequently decapitated with his head sent to al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf in Basra. With the capture of the then-capital of Aror by Arab forces, Muhammad ibn al-Qasim became the first Muslim to have successfully captured Indian land, which marked the beginning of Muslim rule in South Asia.
Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Thaqafī belonged to the Banu Thaqif, an Arab tribe that is concentrated around the city of Taif in western Arabia. After the Muslim conquest of Persia, he was assigned as the governor of Fars, likely succeeding his uncle Muhammad ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi. From 708 to 711, Muḥammad ibn al-Qāsim al-Thaqafī led the Sindh conquest. He established Islamic rule throughout the region, serving as governor of Sindh from 712 until his death in 715. After his last conquest of Multan (Punjab), he returned to Arabia where on the way he died in Mosul, in modern Iraq, though some sources record that his body was buried in Makran, a semi-desert coastal region in Balochistan.
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