Muhammad ibn al-Qasim
Muhammad bin Qasim al-Thaqafi (Arabic: محمد بن قاسم) was an Arab general of the Islamic Umayyad Caliphate who attacked the Sindh and Punjab regions along the Indus River (now a part of Pakistan). The conquest of Sindh and Punjab began the Islamic era in South Asia and continues to lend the Sindh province of Pakistan the name Baab-e-Islam (The Gateway of Islam). Muhammad bin Qasim defeated Raja Dahir, the last Hindu king of Sindh and killed him at the banks of the Indus River in Sindh near modern day Nawabshah. Dahir's body was beheaded and his head was sent to Baghdad to be shown to the Umayyad governor of Baghdad, Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf. After defeating Raja Dahir, Muhammad bin Qasim conquered and annexed Sindh and the city of Multan in southern Punjab into the Umayyad Caliphate. Thus, he had captured the entire Sindh and also Multan. Sindh and South Punjab became the easternmost provinces of the Umayyad Caliphate and remained in Arab Muslim hands until the conquests of Mahmud of Ghazni.
Muhammad Ibn Al-Qasim Media
India in Abd al-Malik al-Hind coin 715 CE
Map of expansion of Umayyad Caliphate
The Umayyad Caliphate on the eve of the invasions of Spain and Sindh in 710.
Muhammad ibn al-Qasim's conquest of Sindh (711-715 CE).* Desert areas (Registan Desert and Thar Desert)* Zunbils* Kingdom of Sindh (c. 632– 712 CE)* Maitraka Kingdom (c.475–c.776 CE)
Muhammad ibn al-Qasim Mosque in Sukkur, Pakistan, dedicated to the leader.
