What is Muhammad ibn al-Qasim?
{{no sources|date=March 2025}} '''Muhammad bin Qasim al-Thaqafi''' ({{lang-ar|محمد بن قاسم}}) was an [[Arab people|Arab]] general of the [[Umayyad Caliphate]] who attacked the [[Sindh]] and [[Punjab (Pakistan)|Punjab]] regions along the [[Indus River]] (now a part of [[Pakistan]]). The conquest of [[Sindh]] and [[Punjab region|Punjab]] began the [[Islam]]ic era in [[South Asia]] and continues to lend the Sindh province of [[Pakistan]] the name ''Baab-e-Islam'' (The Gateway of Islam). Muhammad bin Qasim defeated Raja Dahir, the last [[Hindu]] king of [[Sindh]] and killed him at the banks of the Indus River in Sindh near modern day [[Nawabshah District|Nawabshah]]. Dahir's body was beheaded and his head was sent to [[Baghdad]] to be shown to the Umayyad governor of Baghdad, Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf. After defeating Raja Dahir, Muhammad bin Qasim conquered and annexed [[Sindh]] and the city of [[Multan]] in southern [[Punjab region|Punjab]] into the [[Umayyad Caliphate]]. Thus, he had captured the entire Sindh and also [[Multan]]. Sindh and South [[Punjab region|Punjab]] became the easternmost provinces of the [[Umayyad Caliphate]] and remained in Arab Muslim hands until the conquests of [[Mahmud of Ghazni]]. {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Muhammad bin Qasim al-Thaqafi}} [[Category:695 births]] [[Category:715 deaths]] [[Category:Indian generals]] [[Category:Muslims]] [[Category:National symbols of Pakistan]] [[Category:Syrian military people]] [[Early life]] Muhammad bin Qasim, an Arab general of the Umayyad Caliphate, likely grew up in Ta'if, Basra, and Wasit, receiving education and training under al-Hajjaj's patronage, and was considered a cultured and energetic young man. Muhammad ibn al-Qasim - Wikipedia The modern historian Nabi Bakhsh Baloch holds that Muhammad most likely grew up partly in Ta'if and then Basra and Wasit, the provincial capital of Iraq founded...