Naṣr ibn Sayyār al-Lāythi al-Kināni (Arabic: نصر بن سيار الليثي الكناني;‎ 663 – 9 December 748) was an Arab general and the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan...

Abū Muḥammad al-Muẓaffar ibn Naṣr ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq (Arabic: أبو محمد المظفر بن نصر ابن سيار الوراق) was an Arab author from Baghdad. He was the compiler...

in Transoxiana supported by the native princes. Asad's successor, Nasr ibn Sayyar, campaigned against Harith and his native supporters, but eventually...

forces of the Umayyad governor, Nasr ibn Sayyar. Yahya was the oldest son of Zayd ibn Ali, a grandson of Husayn ibn Ali and thus great-great-grandson...

the Abbasid revolution began within months. Nasr ibn Sayyar was appointed governor of Khorasan by Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik in 738. He held on to his post...

artist, television interior designer/producer Nasr Abu Zayd (1943–2010), Egyptian Qur'anic thinker Nasr ibn Sayyar (663–748), Arab general and the last Umayyad...

Rāfiʿ ibn al Layth ibn Naṣr ibn Sayyār (Arabic: رافع بن الليث بن نصر بن سيار) was a Khurasani Arab noble who led a large-scale rebellion against the Abbasid...

his brief tenure, Mansur tried to dismiss the governor of Khurasan, Nasr ibn Sayyar, but the latter managed to maintain his post. Yazid III died in September...

football player Ali Sayyar (1926–2019), Bahraini journalist and politician Mohammed Sayyar (born 1991), Qatari football player Nasr ibn Sayyar (663–748), Arab...

In Khurasan there was internal discord, with the Umayyad governor Nasr ibn Sayyar facing opposition from al-Harith and al-Kirmani. They also fought each...

that pursued the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan, Nasr ibn Sayyar. His army took Nishapur, where Nasr had sought refuge, defeated a 10,000-strong Umayyad...

where the revolts of al-Harith ibn Surayj and Juday al-Kirmani occupied the attention of the Umayyad governor, Nasr ibn Sayyar. The violence intensified the...

fell victim to inter-Türgesh rivalries in early 738. Asad's successor Nasr ibn Sayyar was able to use the collapse of Türgesh power, and by c. 743 had restored...

opened the way for the appointment of a native Khurasani Arab governor, Nasr ibn Sayyar, to succeed Asad, and, eventually, for the outbreak of the Abbasid...

the Umayyads. [clarification needed] The Sogdians were pacified by Nasr ibn Sayyar after Sulu, Khagan of the Turgesh, died. Islam did not widely spread...

ibn Surayj and his Türgesh allies in 736–737, becoming one of the most prominent men in Khurasan and a rival to the Umayyad governor, Nasr ibn Sayyar...

to dismiss the governor of Khurasan, Nasr ibn Sayyar, nominating his own brother Manzur as replacement, but Nasr managed to hold out and maintain his...

Balkh after a brief illness. Ja'far ibn Hanzala al-Bahrani succeeded him temporarily until, in July, Nasr ibn Sayyar was named to the governorship. Asad's...

Abbasid Caliphate. Wilhelm Barthold misidentified him as the son of Nasr ibn Sayyar, the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan, but according to the Kitab...

Qahtaba ibn Shabib al-Ta'i takes the cities Nishapur and Rey, defeating an Umayyad army (10,000 men) at Gorgan. December 9 – Nasr ibn Sayyar, Arab governor...

soon established control of Khurasan, expelling its Umayyad governor, Nasr ibn Sayyar, and dispatched an army westwards. Kufa fell to the Hashimiyya in 749...

defeated by the Arab forces under command of Khalid ibn al-Walid at the Battle of Ajnadayn in 634. Ibn al-Walid had converted to Islam around 627, becoming...

by Qutayba ibn Muslim between 706 and 715 and loosely held by the Umayyads from 715 to 738. The conquest was consolidated by Nasr ibn Sayyar between 738...

Khurasani governor Nasr ibn Sayyar, but Nasr refused to accept this. Facing opposition from Juday al-Kirmani, Nasr invited al-Harith ibn Surayj to return...

officially began in Merv. General Qahtaba followed the fleeing governor Nasr ibn Sayyar west defeating the Umayyads at the Battle of Gorgan, the Battle of...

 1102. entry رطل al-Warrāq, al-Muẓaffar Ibn Naṣr Ibn Sayyār (2007-11-26). Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens: Ibn Sayy?r Al-Warr?q's Tenth-Century Baghdadi...

shoulders" "Queen" Bosworth 1996, p. 168-169. In arabic, ibn means son of. so muhammad ibn suri means: muhammad son of suri (so suri is his father) Bosworth...

were weakened by internal conflicts as well. Only after 738, under Nasr ibn Sayyar, were the Umayyads able to restore the Caliphate's control over most...

the pursuit of Nasr ibn Sayyar and the victory at Nihavand, and despite his father's death in battle against the Umayyad governor Yazid ibn Umar al-Fazari...

generals, Qutayba ibn Muslim and Nasr ibn Sayyar, were instrumental in the eventual conquest.[citation needed] In July 738, at the age of 74, Nasr was appointed...