Hisham ibn Amr al-Taghlibi was the governor of the Abbasid Vilayet As-Sindh. He was appointed in 768 by Caliph al-Mansur.[1]
He got the Muslim Sufi leader Abdullah al-Ashtar, along with his ten companions killed near the city of Al-Mansoorah, at the hands of his brother, Safanj bin Amr Al-Taghlibi. He also recovered Abdullah's son, Muhammad, and sent him back to the Caliph.
Hisham made an unsuccessful attempt at subjugating Kashmir. Though he reached as far as the southern slopes of the Himalayas, he failed to enter and occupy the valley. He conquered some parts of Qandhar and Kashmir.
Al-Mansur was impressed by his military and administrative skills and handed the affairs of Kerman in Iran to him. He dispatched a delegation to al-Mansur consisting of intellectual and political personalities of Sindh. Among them was a Sindhi scholar who presented to the Caliph a book, namely "Sidhant", which was also called "Al-sind Hind".[2]
References
- ^ Sanatan Dharm (29 December 2018). "How Samgramaraja of Kashmir Repulsed Attacks of Mahmud of Ghazni". Archived from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
- ^ Dr. Moqeet Javed. "Arab rule in Pakistan (A Historical Study of the Abbasid period)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 29 September 2023. Retrieved 29 September 2023.
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