Arab conquest of Fars
Arab conquest of Pars | |||||||
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Part of Zoroastrian temple in Bishapur | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Sasanian Empire | Rashidun Caliphate | ||||||
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Yazdegerd III Shahrag † Mahak | |||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
Heavy | Unknown, probably heavy |
The Arab conquest of Pars took place from 638/9 to 650/1, and ended with subjugation of the
.The Arab invasion of Sasanian Pars took place in two phases. An initial
The Sasanian emperor Yazdegerd III, who had travelled to Pars to command the defense against the Arabs, was forced to flee to Kirman. This ended Sasanian control or the territory, though its population would later rebel several times against Arab rule.[2]
History
Initial expedition and Sasanian counter-attack
The Arab conquest of Pars began in 638/9, when the Rashidun governor of
The expedition proceeded to captured an island in the Persian Gulf, and, although al-'Ala' and the rest of the Arabs had been ordered to not invade Pars or its surrounding islands, he organized his army into three groups – one under Al-Jarud ibn Mu'alla, the second under Al-Sawwar ibn Hammam and the third under Khulayd ibn al-Mundhir ibn Sawa – and moved on the province.[4] When the first group entered Pars, it was quickly defeated and al-Jarud was killed. The same thing soon happened to the second group. However, things proved to be more fortunate with the third group; Khulayd managed to keep them on bay, but was unable to withdraw back to Bahrain due to the Sasanians blocking his way to the sea.[4] The Sasanians also burnt many of the ships of the Arab forces.[3]
Umar, upon hearing of al-'Ala's ill-fated naval expedition against Pars, dismissed him as governor and reassigned him to the Sasanian front in Iraq, where he was placed under the command of his rival
Al-'Ala was replaced as governor of Bahrain by
Second expedition and successful invasion
In ca. 643,
Al-Thaqafi later managed to establish a military base at Tawwaj, and shortly defeated and killed Shahrag near Rew-shahr, though some sources state that this action was carried out by his brother. A Persian convert to Islam, Hormoz ibn Hayyan al-'Abdi, was shortly sent by al-Thaqafi to attack a fortress known as Senez on the coast of Pars.[7]
After the accession of
In 648, 'Abd-Allah ibn al-'Ash'ari forced the governor of Estakhr, Mahak, to surrender the city. However, this was not the final conquest of Estakhr, as the inhabitants of the city subsequently rebelled in 649/50 while its newly appointed governor,
In 650/1, the Sasanian emperor
References
- ^ Hinds 1984, p. 39.
- ^ a b c d e Morony 1986, pp. 203–210.
- ^ a b Shakir 2005, p. 83.
- ^ a b c Daryaee 1986, pp. 8–9.
- ^ a b Baloch 1946, p. 260–261.
- ^ Hinds 1984, p. 40.
- ^ a b Daryaee 1986, p. 12.
- ^ Daryaee 1986, p. 17.
Sources
- Baloch, Nabi Bakhsh Khan (July 1946). "The Probable Date of the First Arab Expeditions to India". Islamic Culture. 20 (3): 250–266.
- Daryaee, Touraj (1986). Collapse of Sasanian Power in Fars. Fullerton, California: California State University. pp. 3–18.
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