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Daylam

ديلم

The mountain country south of the Caspian west of Tabaristan; Urwa ibn Zayd broke Daylam with the Rayy host on conquest day, Kathir ibn Shihab raided them from Rayy and routed them, Sa'd raided them in his second governorship, and Rayy's amils kept raiding Daylam from Dastaba.

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A mountainous land south of the Caspian Sea and west of Tabaristan. al-Baladhuri reports that Urwa ibn Zayd broke the Daylam together with the people of al-Rayy on the day of the conquest, and that Kathir ibn Shihab raided them from al-Rayy and struck them. Sa'd ibn Abi Waqqas also raided them in his second governorship, and the people of al-Rayy continued to raid them from Dastabi. 1

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Abu Dulaf's Daylam Campaign· al-Hajjaj's Daylam Expedition· Musa ibn Bugha's Daylam Campaign

People and things also explored

Abu Dulaf al-Qasim ibn Isa· al-Afshin· al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf al-Thaqafi· al-Kawki· al-Mu'tazz bi-llah· Amr ibn Hani' al-Absi· Muhammad ibn Sinan al-Ujli· Musa ibn Bugha

Sources

  1. Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)
  • al-Farghani, Elementa astronomica (Golius, Amsterdam 1669)
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Abu Dulaf al-Qasim ibn Isa

Abu Dulaf al-Qasim ibn Isa al-Ijli, lord of al-Karaj and al-Mu'tasim's commander; he raided Daylam under al-Ma'mun and governed in al-Mu'tasim's reign during al-Afshin's Jibal command, taking the Daylam forts of Iqlism, Bumaj, al-Iblam and Andaq.