Daylam

ديلم

The mountain country south of the Caspian west of Tabaristan; Urwa ibn Zayd broke Daylam with the Rayy host on conquest day, Kathir ibn Shihab raided them from Rayy and routed them, Sa'd raided them in his second governorship, and Rayy's amils kept raiding Daylam from Dastaba.

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Abu Dulaf's Daylam Campaign· al-Hajjaj's Daylam Expedition· Musa ibn Bugha's Daylam Campaign

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Abu Dulaf al-Qasim ibn Isa· الأفشين· الحجاج بن يوسف الثقفي· al-Kawki· المعتز بالله· Amr ibn Hani' al-Absi· Muhammad ibn Sinan al-Ujli· Musa ibn Bugha

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  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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Abu Dulaf al-Qasim ibn Isa

Abu Dulaf al-Qasim ibn Isa al-Ijli, lord of al-Karaj and al-Mu'tasim's commander; he raided Daylam under al-Ma'mun and governed in al-Mu'tasim's reign during al-Afshin's Jibal command, taking the Daylam forts of Iqlism, Bumaj, al-Iblam and Andaq.