Tamim ibn Zayd al-Utbi () was the
caliphal governor of Sind in 726–731. He succeeded
al-Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Murri
In the first half of the 8th century CE, a series of battles took place between the Umayyad Caliphate and kingdoms to the east of the Indus river, in the Indian subcontinent.
Subsequent to the Arab conquest of Sindh in present-day Pakistan i ...
.
[ Wink, André. ''Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volume 1: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam, 7th–11th Centuries.'' 3rd ed. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996. ]
In 726, the
Umayyad
The Umayyad Caliphate (661–750 CE; , ; ar, ٱلْخِلَافَة ٱلْأُمَوِيَّة, al-Khilāfah al-ʾUmawīyah) was the second of the four major caliphates established after the death of Muhammad. The caliphate was ruled by the ...
s replaced al-Junayd with Tamim as the governor of Sind. During the next few years, all of the gains made by Junayd were lost. The Arab records do not explain why, except to state that the Caliphate's troops, drawn from distant lands, abandoned their posts in
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
and refused to go back. The historian
Khalid Yahya Blankinship
Khalid Yahya Blankinship (born 1949 in Seattle, Washington) is an American historian who specialises in Islamic and Middle Eastern studies.
Biography
He graduated ( BA) in History from the University of Washington in 1973 and in the same year, whi ...
mentions the possibility that the
Indians revolted, but deemed it more likely that the cause of the losses stemmed from internal issues among the Arabs.
Tamim is said to have fled Sind and died ''en route.
References
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731 deaths
Date of birth unknown
Umayyad governors of Sind
8th-century Arabs