Khuzistan (al-Ahwaz)

الأهواز

al-Ahwaz, the Khuzistan province — a great kura of the Jibal; conquered under Umar, seat of Hurmuzan the last Persian marzban, and where the asawira's conversion-conditions were granted.

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Levant & Iraq
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Abu al-Mukhtar's Satire on the Ahwaz Officials· The Asawira's Conversion Compact· Mutarrif's Killing and Mukram's Vendetta

People and things also explored

the Asawira· Abu al-Mukhtar al-Sa'iq· Abu Musa al-Ashari· Mukram ibn Mutarrif· Mutarrif ibn Saydan al-Bahili· Siyah al-Uswari· Ubaydallah ibn Ziyad ibn Zubyan· Umar ibn al-Khattab

Sources

  • Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
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the Asawira

Persian cavalrymen who entered Islam en bloc at the conquest; in al-Baladhuri they lived opposite Daylam and converted when the Muslims came to Qazwin on the terms of Basra's asawira, then settled at Kufa, joined there by those of Hamra' Daylam whom Ziyad moved to Basra.