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The Arab Invasion of Kashgar in a.d. 715

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

H. A. R. Gibb
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Nothing is more disconcerting to the student of early Muslim history than the way in which Tabarī and the other historians alternate between detailed and comprehensive narrative and jottings of the most meagre and involved nature, filled out, in some cases, by picturesque but obviously legendary tales. These faults, which are to a large degree inherent in the method of compilation from oral tradition, come out most clearly in the narrative of the brilliant series of campaigns by which the Arab general Qutayba ibn Muslim conquered and annexed the lands eastward from Herāt and the Oxus to the Pamīr, during the reign of the Umayyad Caliph Walīd I (a.d. 705–15). Thus we are given a fairly sufficient account of the long drawn out operations against Bukhārā, but none of the actual conquest and colonization of the city : much 'of the expeditions against various princes subject to the kingdom of Tukhāristān, but practically nothing of the annexation of Tukhāristān itself.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 2 , Issue 3 , June 1922 , pp. 467 - 474
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1922

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page 467 note 1 Die. Alt.-türk. Inschriften n. die Arab Quellen, p. 11 (St. Petersburg, 1899).Google Scholar

page 468 note 1 Translated from Chavannes, , Documents sur les Tou-Kiue Occidtntaux (St. Petersburg, 1903), p. 148, n. 3.Google Scholar

page 473 note 1 Taifur, Ibn, Kitāb Baghdād, vi (ed. Keller, H., Leipzig, 1908), p. 8, 1. 12.Google Scholar

page 473 note 2 On the development of traditions to explain poetic allusions see Goldziher, , Muh. Stud., i, 183.Google Scholar