Tamim ibn Zaid al-Utbi

Tamim ibn Zaid al-Utbi
Tamim ibn Zaid al-Utbi
	تميم بن زيد العتبي
Governor of Sind
	In office; 726–731
Monarch	Hisham
Preceded by	Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Murri
Succeeded by	Al-Hakam ibn Awana
Personal details
Died	731; Umayyad Caliphate
Parents	Zaid al-Utbi

Tamim ibn Zaid al-Utbi (Arabic: تميم بن زيد العتبي‎) became the next caliphal governor of Sindh after Al Junayd. He was the governor from 726–731.[1]

In 726 CE, the Caliphate replaced Al-Junayd with Tamim ibn Zayd ibn Hamal al-Qayni (Tamim) as the governor of Sindh. During the next few years, all of the gains made by Junayd were lost. The Arab records do not explain why, except to state that the Caliphate troops, drawn from distant lands, abandoned their posts in India and refused to go back. Blankinship admits the possibility that the Indians must have revolted, but thinks it more likely that the problems were internal to the Arab forces.[2]

Governor Tamim is said to have fled Sindh and died en route.

References

Wink, André. Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volume 1: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam, 7th–11th Centuries. 3rd ed. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996. ISBN 90-04-09249-8
Khalid Yahya Blankinship. End of the Jihad State, The: The Reign of Hisham Ibn 'Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads. SUNY Press. pp. 203–204.

Preceded by Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Murri	Governor of Sind 726-??	Succeeded by Al Hakam ibn Awana

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[1] Wink, André. Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volume 1: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam, 7th–11th Centuries. 3rd ed. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996. ISBN 90-04-09249-8

[Yahya-2] Khalid Yahya Blankinship. End of the Jihad State, The: The Reign of Hisham Ibn 'Abd al-Malik and the Collapse of the Umayyads. SUNY Press. pp. 203–204.