Tamim ibn Zayd al-Utbi () was the caliphal governor of Sind in 726–731. He succeeded al-Junayd ibn Abd al-Rahman al-Murri. Wink, André. ''Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Volume 1: Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam, 7th–11th Centuries.'' 3rd ed. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996. In 726, the

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with Tamim as the governor of Sind. During the next few years, all of the gains made by Junayd were lost. The Arab records do not explain why, except to state that the Caliphate's troops, drawn from distant lands, abandoned their posts in

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and refused to go back. The historian Khalid Yahya Blankinship mentions the possibility that the

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revolted, but deemed it more likely that the cause of the losses stemmed from internal issues among the Arabs. He is reported to have been buried in

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{{s-end 731 deaths Date of birth unknown Umayyad governors of Sind 8th-century Arab people