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Region: Levant & Iraq
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Overview

Khuzistan is a province, and a great district of the mountain districts. The Muslims conquered it in the caliphate of Umar; it was the seat of the kingdom of Hormuzan, the last of the marzbans of Fars. The horsemen received the terms of their conversion to Islam there, according to al-Baladhuri. ¹ See also al-Ahwaz.

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Site of: Abu al-Mukhtar's Satire on the Ahwaz Officials· The Asawira's Conversion Compact· death of Shamla, lord of Khūzistān· Ibn Sina withdraws to Khuzistan· Jalal al-Din reaches Khuzistan and Iraq· Mutarrif's Killing and Mukram's Vendetta· the caliph's vizier marches on and takes Khuzistan

People and things also explored

the Asawira· Abu al-Mukhtar al-Sa'iq· Abu Musa al-Ashari· al-Nasir li-Din Allah Ahmad ibn al-Mustadi'· Ibn Sina (Avicenna)· جلال الدين منكبرتي بن خوارزم شاه· Mukram ibn Mutarrif· Mutarrif ibn Saydan al-Bahili

Sources

Futuh al-Buldan — al-Baladhuri (Mu'assasat al-Ma'arif edition)

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islam.museum contributors. “Khuzistan (al-Ahwaz)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/khuzistan/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-10-16.

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the Asawira

Persian cavalrymen who entered Islam en bloc at the conquest; in al-Baladhuri they lived opposite Daylam and converted when the Muslims came to Qazwin on the terms of Basra's asawira, then settled at Kufa, joined there by those of Hamra' Daylam whom Ziyad moved to Basra.