Rise of Islam

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this one at year 661 AD

this one at year  750  ( the Ummayads)

at the time of Conquesting Persia, egypt was already part of the Caliphat so if there was some Egyptians in the Army led by Khalid bin AL-Waleed Doesnt mean they helped, they were part of the country.

i found this map showing the expansion of Arabs untill the Ummayad who were More Arabic than the later Abbasids

I copied the following from Wikipedia

Do not cut and paste when it comes to historical facts. Rely on the respective book such as Rene Grousset' s Empire of the steps.

Among these generals was the teen-aged Muhammad bin Qasim, who in 712 was sent to Sindh in India. Compared to his general Hajjaj was more hardline insisting that pagans (or those who were not people of the book) be killed or enslaved.

Qutaibah bin Muslim was sent to conquer Turkestan which he did, even penetrating the borders of China and getting a tribute payment from the Chinese emperor. Perhaps his most successful general was Musa bin Nusair who consolidated control over North Africa and who sent Tariq bin Ziyad to invade Spain.

Qutaiba conwuered Sogdia todays Uzbekistan which was a PErsian region those days. Turks invade there correct but that region became Turkiified in the times of Timurlenk.

There was no Turkestan in those days. Turkestan is a new region ans is the word given to the region of

Western Turkistan

Turkmenistan , Uzbekistan, Kazakhistan, Kirghizistan

Eastern Turkistan

Uighur region in China.

In India conquests were achieved by first Ghaznavids then Timurid Baburs.

You did not reach Chinese border. You invaded Tashkent, Chinese attacked you, it was Chinese who reached arabs. 

You should thank us, Karluk assault from north saved you from chinese slaughter in Talas.

Look at the map and see where Talas is. See whether China or Abbasids (who were mainly Persian, that is another story) made the campaign.

those were arabs not turkish

Ghazne Empire and Babur Empire are pure Turkish, pure...

The Byzantine Empire was oppressing non-Orthodox Christians, including the Coptic Egyptians, Apostolic Armenians, and Assyrians. Maybe that's why they would rather have seemingly tolerant Arabs as their rulers, not because Islam was closer to their beleifs.

But some Armenians were far from welcoming them with open arms. Local  dynasties and lords (such as Theotoros Rshduni) formed armies to try to stop the Arab invaders.

The Arabs' tolerance towards Armenians depended from emir to emir.

Hellenism isn't just about architecture. And if one must recognize and cherish the muslim heritage to the world, one must also honestly agree that the greek heritage is unsurmountable.

Originally posted by Christscrusader how LONG did it take for that? quite longer than hellenisism.

much less than the Hellenisisim

from year 708 AD to 714 AD  north africa, spain, north india and big part of centeral asia were taken.

I'm going to have to agree with Christcrusader with this.  Hellenistic culture influenced Indian architecture- which got transmitted to rest of asia via Buddhism.  So its quite interesting to see how 40000 men changed the artistic style of a continent. 

Even if someone defeats others in battle, soon or later, it will degenerate into another fairy tale about a brave knight.  But art, lives forever. 

since you dont read the rest of the posts i will repeat what i posted earlier

I copied the following from Wikipedia

With the ascent of al-Walid I, Hajjaj's reputation grew due to his selection and deployment of numerous successful generals who expanded the Islamic empire. Hajjaj was given these powers due to his high status in the Umayyad government, and he exhibited a lot of control over the provinces that he governed.

Among these generals was the teen-aged Muhammad bin Qasim, who in 712 was sent to Sindh in India. Compared to his general Hajjaj was more hardline insisting that pagans (or those who were not people of the book) be killed or enslaved.

Qutaibah bin Muslim was sent to conquer Turkestan which he did, even penetrating the borders of China and getting a tribute payment from the Chinese emperor. Perhaps his most successful general was Musa bin Nusair who consolidated control over North Africa and who sent Tariq bin Ziyad to invade Spain.

those were arabs not turkish

also Alexander is one man and this one man wont be able to do anything without something called ARMY with more than 40000 men so my comparison doesnt make him that much important ( he is more important to Europeans and Westerners but not to Arabs) it is a Comparison between two Armies

also alexander's army was a nation army while the Army sent to india was just part of the Islamic armies who were speread in the west and the east Conquering every directions.

so to compare Alexander and His Army with one part of Ummayad Empire army makes that Group of people more important than Alexander's Empire's Army.

still persia was not weak