Arab rule in Pakistan(A Historical Study of the Abbasid period)

Abstract

The Abbasid period of Arab-Muslim history is a period of, besides large-scale conquests, cultural expansion towards the remote areas of the Arab empire. As to the Province of Sindh (now called Pakistan), the Arab authorities, after taking a firm grip on the administration in Umayyad time, now started engaging themselves in other areas like academics, dissemination of Islam and its culture and social welfare of the local masses. But all this advancement was badly shaken by the internal strife, tribal clashes, political leg-pulling among the Arab ruling dynasties in Sindh. Resultantly, the Arab rule came to an end within three hundred years. In this short piece of research endeavor, we have analyzed the whole period of 275 years of the Abbasids discussing the contribution of every Arab provincial governor and later quasi-independent Arab states to the rise or fall of the Abbasid rule in the area.