Islam Museum Islam Museum islam.museum
Search ⌕ ARENUR
Accessibility
Text size 100%

Saved on this device only — nothing is sent anywhere.

al-Rur

الرور

al-Rur, a hilltop Sind city; taken by sulh after months — 'the budd is as the churches of Christians and Jews and the Magians' fire-houses' — kharaj laid, a mosque built.

Depth

At a glance

Region
Persia & Central Asia
Review
Draft Completeness 1/5 · Help complete it

Overview

al-Rur: one of the cities of Sind, on a mountain. al-Baladhuri reports that Muhammad ibn al-Qasim besieged it for months and then conquered it by treaty, on condition that he would not kill them or interfere with their temples. 1

According to the report, he said that the temples are like the churches of the Christians and Jews and the fire-houses of the Magians. He imposed the kharaj on them and built a mosque. 1

An additional source is needed to fix the page number.

Connections

Explore the connections

Site of
The Sulh of al-Rur

People and things also explored

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi· The Sulh of al-Rur

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
Cite this page

islam.museum contributors. “al-Rur”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/al-rur/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

Improve this page on GitHub · Report an error · JSON

Wing

Place

Cities, sites and routes on a map that moves through time. Related

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi

Muhammad ibn al-Qasim al-Thaqafi, conqueror of Sind in al-Walid ibn Abd al-Malik's caliphate; in al-Baladhuri: al-Walid transferred to Antioch a company of the Sindhi Zutt whom Muhammad ibn al-Qasim had assigned to al-Hajjaj, who sent them on to Syria — as Mu'awiya had earlier, in year 49 or 50, moved companies of Basra's Zutt and Sayabija to the coasts, settling some at Antioch.