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Azerbaijan

أذربيجان

The province of Azerbaijan, whose seat Ardabil held its marzban and kharaj office; Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman conquered it on Umar's writ delivered by al-Mughira, its marzban treating for eight hundred thousand dirhams weight-eight.

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Persia & Central Asia
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Conquest of Azerbaijan· Utba ibn Farqad's Khabis Baskets

People and things also explored

Utba ibn Farqad al-Sulami· Abdallah ibn Shibl al-Antamasi· al-Ash'ath ibn Qays· al-Walid ibn Uqba ibn Abi Mu'ayt· Amr ibn Utba the Ascetic· Bukayr ibn Shaddad· Hudhayfa ibn al-Yaman· Sa'id ibn al-As ibn Sa'id ibn al-As ibn Umayya

Sources

  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Utba ibn Farqad al-Sulami

Commander of the Jazira conquests; in al-Baladhuri he opened al-Tirhan and Mosul and enforced for Tikrit's people the safe-conduct document written them by al-Tusayr and Hudhayfa ibn Mihsan.