This article, first of all, deals with the prehminaries of the conquest of Sind. The seven-year conquests of Mohammad h. Qassim Thaqafi in western
.lihad-i Daneshgahi
parts of India is studied then, and finally the political situations of Islamic possessions in India from the lime when Muhammad b. Qassim was deposed
by Sulayman b. 'Abd al-Malik up to the early times of Abbasid caliphate is
studied.
Umayyads, conquests
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