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...

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...

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

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...

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...

governor, Nasr ibn Sayyar, and sought to replace him with their champion, Juday al-Kirmani. Al-Kirmani led an uprising against Ibn Sayyar, and drove...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

Egyptian Qur'anic thinker Nasr ibn Sayyar (663–748), Arab general and the last Umayyad governor of Khurasan in 738–748 Nasr ibn Shabath al-Uqayli, early...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

however, he neglected lending assistance to the governor of Khurasan, Nasr ibn Sayyar, when he was faced with the outbreak of the Abbasid Revolution. In...

 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...

sources. Ferghana was in 740 ravaged by another Umayyad general named Nasr ibn Sayyar. Chinese sources, however, recorded that Arslan Dehqan assisted the...

al-Kilabi (who was of northern Arab stock) by the new regime. Only after Nasr ibn Sayyar led a force of Mudaris (northern Arabs) against them and defeated them...

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...

defeated and killed at Guzgan by the forces of the Umayyad governor, Nasr ibn Sayyar. His tomb was later a site of pilgrimage. In Abbasid times, the local...

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...

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...

confirmed Nasr ibn Sayyar as governor of Khurasan. However, bribed by Yusuf ibn Umar, the caliph dismissed him. Al-Walid appointed his uncle Yusuf ibn Muhammad...

ibn Abd al-Malik rejected his choice, and Nasr ibn Sayyar was appointed instead. During the civil war, he served as governor of Basra under Yazid ibn...

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

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