The Muslim conquest of Kerman and Sistan took place around 644 AD, during the
caliphate
A caliphate or khilāfah ( ar, خِلَافَة, ) is an institution or public office under the leadership of an Islamic steward with the title of caliph (; ar, خَلِيفَة , ), a person considered a political-religious successor to th ...
of
ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān
Uthman ibn Affan ( ar, عثمان بن عفان, ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān; – 17 June 656), also spelled by Colloquial Arabic, Turkish language, Turkish and Persian language, Persian rendering Osman, was a second cousin, son-in-law and nota ...
.
Rāshidūn forces under ʿAbdullah ibn ʿAbdullah ibn ʿItbān and Suhail ibn ʿĀdi killed the
Sassanid
The Sasanian () or Sassanid Empire, officially known as the Empire of Iranians (, ) and also referred to by historians as the Neo-Persian Empire, was the last Iranian empire before the early Muslim conquests of the 7th-8th centuries AD. Named ...
governor of
Kerman and took the towns of
Bam,
Bardsīr,
Jīroft and
Sīrjān.
References
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[Naseer Dashti (2012)]
''The Baloch and Balochistan: A Historical Account from the Beginning to the Fall of the Baloch State''
.l. Trafford Publishing. {{ISBN, 9781466958951.{{Self-published inline, certain=yes, date=January 2018
7th century in Asia
Khuzestan
History of Kerman Province
Kerman