Qutaiba ibn Muslim

Qutaiba ibn Muslim (* 670 ; † 715 ;قتيبة بن مسلم, DMG Qutaiba b. Muslim ) was a general of the Arab Umayyad - caliph , the beginning of the 8th century Transoxiana conquered.

Qutaiba was a member of the Arab Bāhila tribe and was from 696/7 in the entourage of al-Hajjaj ibn Yūsuf , the governor of ʿAbd al-Malik in Iraq . In 704 he was commissioned by al-Hajjaj, from Khorassan to take from the submission of Transoxiana in attack. In several campaigns against local petty kings and Turkish tribes, he subjugated Bukhara (709) and Samarkand (712, where the local ruler Ghurak remained in office) and penetrated the Fergana Valley and in the northeast as far as Isfijab . Also Choresmien and Balch could be subjected by his brother Abd al-Rahman. During the military actions, Qutaiba also fought against the pagan religions in Transoxania, but left the native dynasties in power in the subjugated principalities.

When the new caliph Sulaiman (715–717) deposed and persecuted the officials of the governor al-Hajjaj, Qutaiba was also affected, because he had supported the plan to exclude Sulaiman from the line of succession. Qutaiba refused allegiance to the caliph, whereupon the army (except for his Sogdian bodyguard) mutinied and he and the members of his household were murdered.

literature

• CEBosworth: Art. "Ḳutayba b. Muslim" in The Encyclopaedia of Islam. New Edition Vol. V, pp. 541-542.
• Stephan and Nandy Ronart: Lexicon of the Arab World . Artemis, Zurich, 1972.
• Julius Wellhausen: The Arab Empire and its fall. Berlin, 1960.

supporting documents

1. ↑ Cf. at-Tabarī : The history of al-Ṭabarī . Vol. 22: The Marwānid restoration . Translated and annotated by Everett Rowson. Albany, NY: State Univ. of New York Press 1989. pp. 113-116.