Al Muhallab ibn Abi Suffrah
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Al Muhallab ibn Abi Suffrah ( - c. 702), also known as Mohalib, was an Azdi Arab an eminent military commander in Persia and Arabia. He was a governor of Basra and then Khorasan during the Umayyad caliphate under whom he became the leader of some of the conquests of Khorasan, Kirman and the first exploratory Islamic forays into the Indian frontier.[1] Under him the conquest of Makran, where susbstantial Azdi were settled, was consolidated and military incursions into Sindh penetrating up to Multan, in the Punjab in present day Pakistan, carried out.[1] His army's head-quarters where at Khorasan, in the north-east of modern Iran.[1]
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In Iraq under the Zubayrids governor of Basra, Mus'ab bin al-Zubayr, Al Muhallab was entrusted with suppressing the rising of the Azariqa Kharijites by and when the Umayyads came to power in Iraq, he transferred his allegiance to them.[2] Under Al-Hajjaj, he pushed them out from Iraq to Siwistan so that by the end of the seventh century they were no longer a threat to the central authorities.[2] He was also involved in containing a second Kharijite uprising to the North of Kufa led by Shabib bin Yazid, which he eventually defeated in 697 CE.[2] In 698 he was made governor of Khorasan by Al-Hajjaj until his death when he was succeeded by his son Yazid ibn al-Muhallab.[3] The rise of the Muhallabids and the "southern azdis" in Khorasan as at Basra is linked to their alliance with the Rabi'a against the Mudar.[3]
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- Wink, Andre, "Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World", Brill Academic Publishers, Aug 1, 2002, ISBN 0-391-04173-8
- Hawting, Gerald R., "The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate Ad 661-750", 2000, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-24072-7
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