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Arab conquest of Transoxiana

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Campaigns under Qutayba ibn Muslim take Bukhara in 709 and Samarkand in 712, bringing the Sogdian heartland into the Umayyad caliphate and beginning the Islamisation of Central Asia.

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  1. Story
  2. Campaigns under Qutayba ibn Muslim take Bukhara in 709 and Samarkand in 712, bringing the Sogdian heartland into the Umayyad caliphate and beginning the Islamisation of Central Asia.
  3. Knowledge
  4. Samarkand
  5. Bukhara
  6. Sogdian merchant networks
  7. Islam
  8. Arab conquest of Transoxiana
  9. Connections
  10. Islam
  11. Bukhara
  12. Samarkand
  13. Sogdian merchant networks
  14. Indian Ocean maritime trade network
  15. Bukhara
  16. Kashgar
  17. Arab conquest of Transoxiana
  18. Battle of Talas
  19. Mecca (Makkah)
  20. Jerusalem (Old City)
  21. Malacca (Melaka)
  22. The Hijra — the Muslim community's migration from Mecca to Medina
  23. Fall of the Sasanian Empire to the Rashidun Caliphate
  24. Construction phases of the Great Mosque at Kilwa Kisiwani
  25. The ruling house of Malacca adopts Islam
  26. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
  27. Samarkand
  28. Merv
  29. Islam
  30. Arab conquest of Transoxiana
  31. Pamir Mountains
  32. Bukhara
  33. Sogdian merchant networks
  34. Papermaking
  35. Arab conquest of Transoxiana
  36. Battle of Talas
  37. Samarkand
  38. Silk
  39. Buddhism
  40. Paper
  41. The Sogdian Ancient Letters are abandoned west of Dunhuang
  42. Arab conquest of Transoxiana
  43. The Dunhuang manuscripts are dispersed
  44. Evidence
  45. One of the most complete surviving medieval urban centres of Central Asia, including the Ismail Samani mausoleum of the ninth to tenth centuries and the Kalyan minaret of 1127.
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